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.

  • @HaSch
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    172 years ago

    It did, but only in the GDR

    • @panic
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      92 years ago

      One can’t help but wonder why that was the case. I mean, we know why.

      • JucheBot1988
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        132 years ago

        Putting the German working class in power = socialism.

        Retaining the German bourgeoisie in power = nazism.

        Funny how that works.