So, recently a russian commented on this post saying "so what, if someone died, that means we should cancel russian creators and artists? But what about the US-"
I won't quote this bullshit fully. Of course, they also assumed I understood russian, which I unfortunately do, but that's very telling. Instantly blocked, but I wanted to talk about something here, for those that aren't hopeless and are willing to listen.
What's also telling is the fact that they said "someone died". Not even the impersonal "someone got killed".
Yeah, because Ukrainians dropping dead all of a sudden has become the norm and russia is definitely not murdering thousands of people in my country.
No, someone did not "die". Your shitty-ass country killed him and many other talented Ukrainians, because you don't believe we have a right to exist as our own, separate, sovereign nation.
Using the US crimes as justification does not make yours in any way justifiable.
There's only one thing I agree with in that comment. We should've done something about the russian culture long before the current russian genocide of Ukrainians.
Probably the moment it suddenly became "great". Because no culture is "great", in a sense of greater than the others, but russian is.
Here is just one example of what russians do to Ukrainian artists.
This Ukrainian artist on Instagram had their house destroyed by russians very recently. Fortunately, they've received support from many Ukrainians and their friends abroad. Unfortunately, many people in such situations don't.
russia has murdered, harmed and tortured so many Ukrainian artists, athletes, writers, teachers, doctors, scientists; it has destroyed Ukrainian printing houses, galleries, museums, churches, hospitals and fucking playing yards; they've stolen art from us, diminishing and ruining the lives of my people for generations. Tell me, why shouldn't we boycott russian culture in order to finally, finally hear the noises of the cultures they've been destroying for centuries?
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