The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Gogol” (major Ukrainian author that russia tries to appropriate) yields 1 article about russian theater!
Russia is known for using Russification as a method of oppression and genocide [1]. Dostoyevsky’s views are also pretty well known and their existence is not a matter of partisan opinion. If you are talking about Dostoyevsky, you are talking about core beliefs of russian fascist thought [2].
By preventing criticism of this, you are not neutral. This is not a political or ideological issue. It is a moral, humanist issue. And you know that.
> ... but we can randomize the username and/or do other things.
Hey.com solved the problem pretty easily: just have a positive list of email addresses that reach your inbox and the rest are sent to a screener folder.
It's only a jump if you deliberately ignore what russians themselves are saying.
As I've mentioned somewhere else in this thread, russian government and russian mass media outright call for ethnic cleansing. Putin in his speech at the start of the war said "that he has taken steps to finally solve the Ukrainian question". Solovyev and Skabeyeva - very prominent, prime-time media personalities - are actively promoting ideas of ethnic cleansing, like Skabeeva saying that the gruesome beheading of a Ukrainian POW by Wagner is righteous and should happen to all Ukrainians who oppose russia. Prigozhin publicly claimed that they have "killed most of the active Ukrainian male population" (which is BS) and therefore "achieved the goals of Putin's Special Military Operation." (which is an super significant statement about their intent!)
In light of this, your whataboutism is both tiresome and irrelevant, because you are outright ignoring explicit statements by one side. This is per definition unbalanced.
The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Qunanbaiuly” (major Kazakh author) yields no results.
The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Shevchenko” (major Ukrainian author) yields no results.
The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Gogol” (major Ukrainian author that russia tries to appropriate) yields 1 article about russian theater!
The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Taamsaare” (major Estonian author) yield no results.
But the search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Dostoevsky” yields 5 results.
5 > 0. Not an illusion.
Russia is known for using Russification as a method of oppression and genocide [1]. Dostoyevsky’s views are also pretty well known and their existence is not a matter of partisan opinion. If you are talking about Dostoyevsky, you are talking about core beliefs of russian fascist thought [2].
By preventing criticism of this, you are not neutral. This is not a political or ideological issue. It is a moral, humanist issue. And you know that.
> ... but we can randomize the username and/or do other things.
Please do those things in my case.
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[1] - https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/the-forcible-transfer-an...
[2] - https://war.ukraine.ua/articles/origins-of-rashism-ideology-...