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.

  • @AverageUlyanovFan
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    112 years ago

    TBH that “stupid arm chair opinion bollocks” got my grandfather blind, so it’s kinda disturbing. And very disappointing.

      • @AverageUlyanovFan
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        42 years ago

        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.