[Thorentis]

Unfortunately, along with Hollywood and other culture, the US thanks to the Internet also exports its political and social issues to the world. It has reached the point that "white people" are now considered the oppressors of every country, regardless of whether those people are indeed the indigenous population of the country.

It is even more absurd in the UK, where in fact multiple groups of white people were successively displaced by conquest (Celts, Angles, Saxons, Normans, etc), and yet collectively, "Anglo Saxons" are perceived as oppressors, even if many decend from a group of people who were themselves oppressed.

[thriftwy]

It is not incompetence but obvious malice: the granny of all SJW movements, the early Soviet regime, openly declared that Russians are oppressors and have to make up for centuries of oppression, even as the majority of Russian population were direct descendants of serfs, who were sold and bought at some periods of time; and that most of higher-class Russians were either expelled or outright killed at this point.

Russia did not really recover from that outbreak, and some other countries may still have it ahead.

[golergka]

And still most of current Russian territory is colonian expansion, with subjugation of native cultures and people continuing well into present day.

Have you tried renting an apartment in Moscow without “Slavic” looks?

[thriftwy]

You seem to assume that in some fashion, the minorities would be the winners of totalitarian cult's actions. They would not. The minorities would be better off living in a stable, lawful and democratic society, even if it does not try to declare war on the majority.

Russians do not run their country for a century, but yeah, they may respond by not renting you their crappy and overpriced flat.

[krzyk]

Oh, so some other nation is ruling Russians?

[thriftwy]

Who is "ruling" the modern USA colonialism/white oppression discourse? It's not an ethnic group for sure.

[unmole]

> Russians are oppressors and have to make up for centuries of oppression

Do you have a source for that?

[thriftwy]

http://library.maoism.ru/Lenin/Lenin-autonomisation.htm

Поэтому интернационализм со стороны угнетающей или так называемой «великой» нации (хотя великой только своими насилиями, великой только так, как велик держиморда) должен состоять не только в соблюдении формального равенства наций, но и в таком неравенстве, которое возмещало бы со стороны нации угнетающей, нации большой, то неравенство, которое складывается в жизни фактически.

Lenin

[gunfighthacksaw]

Not that I understand Russian all that well, but I don’t see ‘Rossiya’ or any of its declensions in that passage, therefore I don’t think that passage refers to Russia specifically, whatever it’s getting at.

[thriftwy]

Were you banned from Google Translate?

And it absolutely applies to the USA of 2020s

Therefore, internationalism on the part of the oppressor or the so-called "great" nation (although great only by its violence, great only in the way that the oppressor[1] is great) should consist not only in observing the formal equality of nations, but also in such an inequality that would make the oppressor, large nation compensate the inequality that develops in life in fact.

1. a correct meaning here would probably be "bigot"

[bigbillheck]

This seems to be a remarkably creative interpretation.