Every journalist covering Ukraine should really, really look internally. This is why I say we should stop pretending we have objectivity and in instead acknowledge our biases so that we can report against them. Many of us see the racialized analysis and language.
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And honestly, these admissions of shock that this is happening in a European country are ahistorical and also serve to justify the lack of sympathy for other invasions, other occupations and other refugee crisis involving peoples not considered white.
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With you there. "Can you believe what happened at the Jones' down the street?" kind of vibe.
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Not to mention that it’s ignorant as fuck about Europe, where tribal and national tensions means there has been a war roughly every 30 years since the fall of Rome. And not counting the Balkan Wars when they say “first war sine WWII” is more racism/prejudice.
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And you would expect journalists to do better then to fall for Russian propaganda efforts. Do you enjoy taking part in divide and conquer?
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YES! first ground war in 70 years? What about Bosnia?!?!?! How can editors let such rash statements pass? Oh right, no more editors...
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I don't understand the shock. This is literally the land that had kill-the-Jew pogroms for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's the "Russian pale" where Russia sent various ethnic groups to eke out a living and be slaughtered now and then by locals.
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So there is a war going on, and some black people still want this to be about them, and the racism they face?
Show some human decency and wait till the war is over.
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I agree it’s important to draw attention to this type of racism - I was not aware. But there are many reasons to be very concerned here that have nothing to do with race - notably Putin’s expansionist ambitions combined with the potential for existentially dangerous escalation
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Shes talking about the responsibilities of journalists in reporting news accurately and unbiased not the reasons why Putin is doing what he is doing,why and how. Those are two different topics
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