It's been eye opening to see how easily we can normalize this type of stuff. Social media is also full of deranged calls for full on war against Russia (!!), war crime apologia, and just a pervasive hysterical discourse. The slope is getting so slippery that honestly it's got to stop. Let statesmen impose the sanctions that they deem necessary, they know better than random people.

What ukraine needs is advanced weaponry, financial and political support. Not this batshit insane vigilantism that will not end well and do absolutely nothing to hurt the Russian state. I cant even imagine if this happened to a more visible minority, say if China invaded taiwan? It's just scary.

I'm not saying this is on the same level at all, but I'm starting to understand how it got to the point where the internement of Japanese Americans was supported by a majority of Americans back in ww2. As a minority it just gives me this weird unsettling feeling that is a bit hard to explain, even if I'm not russian.