Don’t be surprised that Ukraine is being described as “civilized” as opposed to Iraq and Afghanistan. A reporter once told my class that she covered the Iraq war from the perspective of US soldiers because unlike Iraqis, they weren’t used to war and suffering.
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The dehumanization runs deep and as the late Edward Said argued, it makes the region “vulnerable to military aggression.”
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While they ignore the role of US/west in destabilizing both countries for decades.
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there is so much work we have to do to correct this wrong and there are limited resources
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Even Ukraine is described as "relatively" civilized and "relatively" European despite being de facto the biggest country in Europe and when the same was happening in Georgia the outrage was much less powerful because US and most of Europe was busy bombing Iraq. Fuck that.
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War mongering is uncivilized, brutish behavior. But only when someone else does it.
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I think the problem is that human beings project their traits on the other to such a degree that we end up in a hall of mirrors, which makes the most violent among us want to smash the reflection they’re looking at.
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Saw a video of a guy saying Ukrainian people must be saved because they blonde hair and blue eyes :/
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‘Relatively civilized’. In the Karen/Charlie minds, Eastern Europeans are only halfway there
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