Recently i re-watched the documentary inside job, about the 2008 financial crisis ( since we’re about due for another ). One notable thing was the docu was made before the trade war on China, and had no sinophobic nonsense whatseover, even interviewed a few Chinese economists and state run bankers.
Fair enough, although I suspect they simply kept it on the down low. But you go back however far you want in pop culture and you can easily find some variation of “ebil russkies”. Maybe it was seen as “non comme il faut” to openly disparage against non-white people, however much they may have wanted to. Now they’ve just been given permission to say it out loud.
It’s nothing new, tbh. Not if you’ve been paying attention to the anti-Russian/anti-Soviet propaganda of the past, oh let’s say sixty years
Recently i re-watched the documentary inside job, about the 2008 financial crisis ( since we’re about due for another ). One notable thing was the docu was made before the trade war on China, and had no sinophobic nonsense whatseover, even interviewed a few Chinese economists and state run bankers.
Fair enough, although I suspect they simply kept it on the down low. But you go back however far you want in pop culture and you can easily find some variation of “ebil russkies”. Maybe it was seen as “non comme il faut” to openly disparage against non-white people, however much they may have wanted to. Now they’ve just been given permission to say it out loud.