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> You don't need to have empathy for Russians. They're just evil. It's literally a criminal offense to say that in The Netherlands. Not that I agree with such a restriction on free speech. There's no moral issue with attacking those Russians that are attacking Ukraine. And the rules around wars also allow for attacks deep in Russian territory on military targets, even certain industrial targets. If you want to go beyond that and commit genocide on the entire population, and even Russians abroad, based on crazy inherent-nature-of-race theories you're on your own.
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So? They're just criminalizing factual statements. EU countries also like to prohibit the collection of statistics on crimes committed by race, and prohibit honest discussion of the facts around that. Eg I probably could be prosecuted in the right circumstances for posting this graph and pointing out that's it's no surprise that criminality is so high amongst the US black population, as their average IQs are a fair bit less than whites and Asians:
The EU has absurd laws that are basically fraud on the public, esp by prohibiting honest discussion around immigration. As for the Russian population, with a double digit percentage of Russia's entire GDP going to genocidal war, going to work and paying your taxes in Russia is evil. Obviously, Russia hasn't collapsed due to nation wide strikes or tax non-payment. Quite the opposite: there's been hardly any protests and there's clearly wide public support for the invasion. Another example of this is the fact that hundreds of thousands of Russians – quite possibly millions – have moved to occupied Ukraine. They are taking advantage of cheap/free housing made available by the fact that the Ukrainians who used to live there have been forced out and/or killed. The Russians moving in know this: it's particularly grim in places like Mariupol where the real estate agents openly advertise when they know former inhabitants are dead. Right there you have hundreds of thousands to millions of Russians who are clearly serious criminals. These scumbags need to be forced out, ideally jailed or killed. The efficient, practical, thing to do is probably to impose the death penalty for illegally entering Ukraine and hope that they leave on their own accord as territory is taken back. Based on those facts you absolutely can say that Russians as a whole are evil. The average Russian is an evil person. That's just a factual statement. Of course, something like a million Russians have left Russia. I know some of those people myself. But that just furthers my point. The good people have left and are no longer Russians in the sense I'm using. What remains is on average scrumbags and people too poor to leave.
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