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0 pointspajko3y ago0 comments

It's not that simple. A single person is not required to agree with what their country is doing, and probably can do little. Unless something can be attached to their name, like a tweet saying "all ukrainians shall die" or spreading modern russian ideology, it's wrong to punish. It's prejudice, it's discrimination, no different than not letting somebody into a restaurant just because of their race. Were all germans guilty because of Hitler?

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anonymouskimmer3y ago

> Were all germans guilty because of Hitler?

If a German, during WW2, or heck even WW1, submitted an article to a British journal on improvements to industrial equipment, and did so on BASF letterhead and with a correspondence address to BASF's headquarters, companies in the allied nations would be right to think twice before implementing those improvements, or even making comments on those improvements.

yladiz3y ago

Sorry, but I can't believe you've just compared discrimination against someone going into a restaurant due to their race to Hitler/the Holocaust. Like, c'mon.

What's that rule that every argument on the Internet eventually devolves into something about the Holocaust or Hitler or something like that?

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