Collective responsibility as a Russian immigrant who came of age in the United States
A few weeks ago, my sister posted an Instagram story touching on atrocities against Native Americans/First Nations and saying something to the effect of "I used to think that this doesn't affect me because I'm an immigrant, but I don't anymore."
Which got me thinking why I don't feel that way, at all.
( I am still not sure - but here are some of my thoughts on the subject )
Which got me thinking why I don't feel that way, at all.
( I am still not sure - but here are some of my thoughts on the subject )
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What is it that you struggle to explain to American’s about Putin? I think your weighted feelings are justified because Stalinism and Putinism are much worse and because you’re a Russian speaking journalist who can’t help but be aware of that in detail ( ... )
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Why he got support after, well, everything that happened in the Soviet Union. At least Trump makes it easier to explain his appeal to nostalgia, but it's still hard to explain to people how bad the collapse of the Soviet Union was, how much privatization and free market capitalism screwed so many people over, the frustration with oligarchs' excesses, and how hollow the appeals to the importance of freedom sounded in light of all that to many people. But my old Nigerian-American roommate knew exactly what I was talking about. We even bonded a bit over our home countries' respective histories of corruption and mismanagement.
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