That's not even considering the media. In the media, all Eastern Europeans are Russians. Stop, end of story. The rest of us don't even exist. Even if a movie/TV show is set in a different Eastern European country, the main characters are still Russians (for example, xXx and Hostel - set in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, respectively, but the antagonists are still Russians). Not to mention that movies also depict Eastern Europe as this boogeyman-filled industrial wasteland, which is also not true.
The thing that really gets me about the whole anti-oppression framework that many left-wingers profess is that they won't acknowledge any of this. Believe me, I've tried. "White" is "white", and that's that. And while there are many things that left-wingers and I disagree on, if they could at least acknowledge this one point, we'd be able to have much more civil conversations, and I might be able to accept their anti-oppression framework. But until they do, I can't, because said framework declares that I don't exist.
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Date: 2012-03-01 10:43 pm (UTC)That's not even considering the media. In the media, all Eastern Europeans are Russians. Stop, end of story. The rest of us don't even exist. Even if a movie/TV show is set in a different Eastern European country, the main characters are still Russians (for example, xXx and Hostel - set in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, respectively, but the antagonists are still Russians). Not to mention that movies also depict Eastern Europe as this boogeyman-filled industrial wasteland, which is also not true.
The thing that really gets me about the whole anti-oppression framework that many left-wingers profess is that they won't acknowledge any of this. Believe me, I've tried. "White" is "white", and that's that. And while there are many things that left-wingers and I disagree on, if they could at least acknowledge this one point, we'd be able to have much more civil conversations, and I might be able to accept their anti-oppression framework. But until they do, I can't, because said framework declares that I don't exist.