It’s all about _______
I do love the low carb one, I have to say.
Putin is allowed to do this because white privilege.
Bicycles forevaaaaaaaaaaaa
It’s all about _______
I do love the low carb one, I have to say.
Putin is allowed to do this because white privilege.
Bicycles forevaaaaaaaaaaaa
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7 responses to “Ukraine & low carbs”
Woah…this is mind-bending.
Usually when someone gives a list of examples to make their point, it’s two or three items; any beyond that are either repetitive or off-point.
This is twenty one items, and every one is dead-on.
The “White Privilege” thing isn’t totally off-base, tho. A great percentage of Putin’s Western apologists, including the GOP and Faux News, are quite open about Russia being a white nation being part of the reason they’re backing him. And the West does have a habit of being far more willing to intervene, not merely with sanctions but also with troops on the ground, any time an African or Asian or South American nation gets too uppity. So there absolutely is some degree of racism involved, here.
Well yes except…Ukraine has white privilege too.
Freemage:
Is it ‘White privilege’ or ‘having nuclear weapons privilege’ ?
“Nuke privilege” is a lot rarer than “white privilege”… if it were likely for a dark skinned man to be running a country with lots of nuclear weapons I think the response would be similar (oh wait, we’ve already had that but he wasn’t a nut job).
Re the bicycle – Pres Zelinskyi and the Mayor of Kyiv both ride them:-
https://twitter.com/brent_bellamy/status/1498115241586171904
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