Why Do I Feel So Good About It? >•

EXACTLY.

I read. Obsessively. Because, when I read, there is purpose to my loneliness.

September Affirmation (Don’t Be Afraid) by Keaton St. James

Castle in the Sky, 1989

Again and again and again I see (mostly) westerners accusing Ukraine of "opressing russian-speaking minority" by our language law (without reading the language law itself, obviously). It really looks like people have some kind of pavlovian reflex to the word "minority", immediately jumping to the assumption that minority = opressed by the majority. But a minority by numbers does not automatically mean minority by power. Billionaires, too, make up a minority of population, does that mean that they are opressed by the majority class? Are gaelige speakers in Ireland priveleged in comparison to the English? Are Elon Musk's white emerald mine owning family opressed by the majority black African population?

For the 1000th time, the relationship between Ukraine and russia is that between colonised and coloniser. It is russian identity, russian language, russian culture, russian world that has been privileged on the territory of ukraine for at least last 400 years. It is ukrainian language, ukrainian culture, ukrainian identity that people have been repressed and killed for.

russian propaganda takes this assumption westerners have about how the world fuctions (minority=oppressed) and uses it to twist the reality. To make you believe that Ukrainians somehow "deserve" to be genocided. To make you believe that it's the best course of action for the West to abandon Ukraine to be raped and plundered by russia. But we can call it "peace", because russians won't allow western journalists to report on it, and we all know that if the west doesn't talk about something, it means it doesn't exist :))))

Here are statistics about the "opression of russian language" from 2012 - during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovich, russian puppet and a literal mafioso [source]:

More than 60% of the total circulation of newspapers, 83% of magazines, and about 87% of books (most of which are imported from Russia) are published in Russian in Ukraine.

In October 2012, only 28% of the prime time on the top 8 TV channels was devoted to Ukrainian-language programs, 44% to Russian-language programs and 28% to bilingual programs.

On the 6 top-rated radio stations, songs in Ukrainian account for only 3.4% of the total number of songs in prime time (last year - 4.6%). At the same time, songs in Russian account for 60% of the total number of songs.

Out of 290 restaurants in 29 cities, only 50% of them have signs in Ukrainian, 46% have menus in Ukrainian, and only 36% have employees who answer Ukrainian to Ukrainian-speaking customers (in another 11%, employees switched to Ukrainian during the conversation).

The "oppression of russian speakers in Ukraine" is nothing but the tyranny of russian chauvinism and imperialism losing its footing. Y'all had no trouble understanding how white ethnonationalists complaining about "the great replacement" is nothing but fear of losing the privilege. Y'all had no trouble understanding that "white cis male is the most opressed person" is a moral panic not grounded in the real power structure of the western society. But in this question, you've decided to ally with the opressor.

*actively searching for those who belong to the race that knows Joseph*

- Roald Dahl

«українці такі злі»

«чому вони постійно говорять тільки про себе»

«країни партнери втомилися від війни в Україні»

майстерно спотворюють сенси та тези, які українці намагаються донести, не тільки тролі у твіттері, а й міжнародні організації, котрі забули про свої обов'язки та перетворилися на рудиментарні залишки минулого, і тепер оон скиглить про хейт у свій бік, знову, знову і знову зсуваючи фокус уваги з основної проблеми, тобто військової агресії недокраїни рф, вторгнення на нашу територію, геноцид українського народу, але правда ж нікуди не дінеться. від неї більше не сховатися за розмитими пацифістськими фразами та підтримкою у вигляді щиро співчуваємо.

доки наші люди гинуть, наша екосистема руйнується, усі закрили рота і просто сдньомрускаваязіка.

українці: оон, роби свою роботу.

оон: подолайте ненависть, згадайте про толерантність, перевіряйте інформацію та припиніть свій хейт

i think i love it here. ).

Warm September morning

КАРПАТСЬКА ВЕЧІРНЯ Заплутались хмари в смереках, Влилися туманами в ніч. Ми йдемо високо й далеко Вітрам і стихіям навстріч. Позаду лишилася втома І міст асфальтова тюрма. Мабуть, в нас таки не всі вдома, Бо нас нині вдома нема! Ми знову на стежці ведмежій, Де крешуть з небес ковалі. Вечірню заграву-пожежу Роздмухує Той, що в скалі. Із сонцем і ми одпочинем, А рано в дорогу нам час, Бо сині карпатські вершини Давно вже чекають на нас! К. МІЩЕНКО