• @nour
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    131 year ago

    This is just an Israel-style propaganda article, “any criticism of my country’s policies is hate speech” type of thinking. Like, this is the first “incident” they detail:

    The letter pointed to three separate incidents of graffiti appearing on campus from September to October 2022. In each, a “Z” appeared next to the word “Russia” in Cyrillic script. The “Z” has become a symbol of support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has appeared on Russian military vehicles.

    The club also objected to the hanging of a Russian flag in a dormitory window

    Oh noes, how dare someone fly the Russian flag? Not a harassment. If it upsets them so much that not everyone supports their American puppet state, go cry about it.

    and detailed one account in which a Carleton student who was wearing a Ukrainian scrunchie on a campus elevator was allegedly told “all Ukrainians should kill themselves.”

    OK, this is bad. But also it’s literally the only actual incident of harassment mentioned in this article.

    the University of Victoria Ukrainian Students’ Society alleged that some of its members were verbally accosted on campus and one member’s property was defaced with the word “Nazi.”

    Let me guess, they were nazis. Many of the Banderites and Ukrainian nazi collaborators fled to Canada. Given the way they put forward these accusations, I’m completely unsurprised if these are their descendants.

    The club also said that members of the Young Communist League of Canada, another ratified club at the university, accused Ukrainian students of supporting fascism and antisemitism in a Facebook post.

    Yeah right, that totally happened. They totally accused all the Ukrainian students of supporting fascism simply because they’re Ukrainian. Totally nothing to do with the actual fascists in the Ukraine that enjoy a disturbing amount of supports from westerners. Totally believable.

    The Carleton Ukrainian club also denounced a panel discussion held on the university’s campus last week titled, The War in Ukraine: What is the Path to Peace?

    It was organized by the Ottawa Peace Council, an advocacy group that favours disarmament and diplomatic solutions to conflict.

    Anastasia Stoikos-Lettieri, president and CEO of the Carleton University Student Association (CUSA), said the student association and the Ukrainian club opposed the event because, in their view, it acted as a “mouthpiece for Russian propaganda” and promoted hate.

    Wanting peace is a promotion of hate now. Whoever wrote this article is a fucking ghoul.

    TLDR, this whole piece belongs in !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml, not here.

    • SovereignState
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      101 year ago

      I know, I know, critical support for Russia. But god damn if these blatant propaganda pieces don’t make me want to go full Z. Russians existing was enough to offend this group. Unsurprising that they targeted the Young Communist League. Fascist fucks masquerading their bullshit underneath liberal-placative language and crocodile tears of oppression.