i really hoped that post won’t be necessary, but apparently it is necessary.
at this point i don’t even know what words to use to make people understand i as a ukrainian don’t want to:
1) see anything russia related in media i consume. (yes, including russian language, its triggering after what they’ve done to my city; narrative about how fucked up and evil russia is, i already know it, don’t need obvious statement repeated one million time for someone who aren’t from here to get it)
2) any contact with anybody from russia. (obvious reasons, they’re genociding us, why would i want to contact them? to hear slurs they’re using for ukrainians and hatecrime 101?)
3) any contact with anybody who sympathizes with them AND ignores politics, including ethic cleansing of ukrainians, bombing, kidnapping of kids from occupied regions and absence of any statement about crimes committed by russia.
if you’re not ukrainian or lived in ukraine during full scale invasion — please, don’t speak on a behalf of ukrainians about what we want or don’t want to see in media. it’s not a thing you can lecture people about. have some respect.
i don’t care if you’re ethically russian, because ethnicity has nothing to do with this, and never had. political stance on the other hand is what matters.
some people here don’t care about politics, or they pretend they do, because they have such privilege. they treat every war as their personal interest or fandom, disregarding any opinion of people of war and their struggles.
we live during times when things like crimes committed by some countries are finally being recorded, spread and noted, yet still there are people who treat that all like a joke or competition.
my only request is: if you don’t wake up from sound of explosions at night and run to closest bomb shelter, if you don’t donate money to any military aid and if you don’t kneel and mourn on the street during funeral procession when there’s another killed soldier who died defending your country — please, respect these who do. have some humanity to not joke about that, have some humanity to walk away if you genuinely couldn’t care less about our suffering.
i don’t see a point in explaining why joking about war — any war — is not funny, i don’t see a point in genocide olympics some of people here really love to participate in, i honestly couldn’t care less if you really believe russophobia exists (interesting that every time people mention it they don’t even try to think why it exists since 2014 in the first place, the same year russia attacked ukraine), but what i genuinely care for — is prioritizing mental state of people who are being killed over mental state of people offended by me personally disliking some show. that’s all.
ukrainians can’t have such thing as neutrality, otherwise they end up dead. our daily life depends on our military system, on our soldiers and political climate. if you don’t understand that — just leave and love your russian culture all you want, just don’t include me in this psychosis.
it’s up to you: to stay and respect my choice to prioritize my own safety and sanity, or leave. in any case some people on this platform clearly need a honest talk about how to respect others, not even including how to treat victims of genocide.
and if mentions of russians during ongoing war in mass media is harmless to you — my request will be lighter than a feather.
at the end of the day — you’re either trying to hear somebody who tries to genuinely ask you for something that matters to them, or you don’t. it’s up to you to decide, and up to you to carry the weight of your decision on your shoulders — doesn’t matter was it right or wrong.
and a note to people who don’t really read things because fury and denial is your first response bc you like that one russian character: no, no one stops you from watching the show, we just can’t like it due to obvious trauma. no, not all russians are bad, but they’re responsible for their country invading other countries. no, our lives aren’t less valid, and we have all rights to be unhappy with one piece of media that ignores very valid historical aspect for our lives. yes, cherry-picking history to write a book is tone deaf, not once mentioning the conflict in a book, movie or making it clear during public campaign that you and your cast members acknowledge and support ukraine is a serious issue, and it’s valid to address it and be vocal about it. switching attention focus from victims of russian aggression to “helpless” aggressors is counterproductive, it's only silencing ukrainians and excluding them from the discourse. yes, sometimes ukrainians can be very emotional and stressed, nevertheless it doesn’t mean you have to send us death threats over russian character.
if you care about us and this ongoing war — be respectful and listen to valid criticism without calling us ethnic slurs at least.
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