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- genzedongde
Transcript/translation:
Her: I believe we mustn’t forget that, even though Russians look European, they are not Europeans, that in a cultural sense they have a different relationship to violence, a different relationship to death…
Interviewer: That they’re more capable/tolerant of enduring suffering or what do you mean?
Her: Well…there they don’t have this liberal, postmodern approach to life, life as a project that everyone shapes for themselves individually, but that life can just end rather quickly with death. I mean eg Russia has a relatively low life-expectancy, I believe 70 for men. That’s just…then one just deals differently with people dying there [Ukraine], right?
This was on Lanz, Germanys biggest political talk-show on German state television. This woman, Florence Gaub, is a political scientist and Deputy Director at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris. This is the institutional racism guiding current European politics.
Literally just the old dehumanizing, orientalist, racist “Russians are just barely human violent hordes that don’t care about their own lives” bs used to justify WW2 and to legitimize the suffering and mass deaths of Russians in the 90s.
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Well this absolute moron doubled down on Twitter, so read for yourself
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Her being an EU/Nato stooge is just fitting and really telling. It also explains why the Eu and Nato are behaving the way they do. This is the level of institutional racism and rot that guides them and informs their decisions. A racist system full of unhinged racists is incapable of assessing actual reality.
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Liberalism?
Jk, don’t know the name for that one. But it is crazy how she just goes like “No no guys I’m not racist, but here I have some more race science to justify my racism”. Then absolutely grasps at straws, pulls out the land mass thing, the “muh Europe is values” bullshit and that god forsaken, insanely racist map.
Grouping the world in just 8 spheres, fucking half of them just being European. Having one of those spheres just being “Anglos”, while grouping countries as diverse as Saudi-Arabia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Tanzania , Bangladesh and Myanmar together as “African-Islamic”. Then grading all of this on some made up “survival vs self-expression values” scale. It would’ve been less racist had she pulled out the calipers.
And the funny thing is Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are literally within a couple pixels of each other. Or it would be funny if all of this wasn’t so damn dangerous.
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TBH that “stupid arm chair opinion bollocks” got my grandfather blind, so it’s kinda disturbing. And very disappointing.
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He was with partisans as a teenager, escaped Germans through the minefield carrying a friend and his eyes got damaged, then several botched field surgeries left him completely blind.