Language Chauvinism - Blog Posts

You all DO NOT fucking understand.

A “what did I do-o-o-o 😭😭😭 I'm just a little guy, I'm apolitical, what do you want from me-e-e-e 😭😭😭😭” russian is not a “good” russian. It is a product of russian propaganda they've got going on inside the country. It is what they've been brainwashed to think like. Their government feeds them contradicting lies and punishes for speaking up, so they sit quietly, not even wanting to learn about Kursk.

They went on a protest when there was no electricity due to infrastructure damage. They went on a protest abroad when a russian nazi singer got blocked on Spotify. Why don't they protest the war while living in Britain? Why do they either not give a fuck or attack Ukrainians abroad? It is THEIR choice to see Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria and then ploof on their backs receive belly scratches that Western folk happily provides.

They don't engage, then visit Crimea in the summer and run in complete bewilderment with tears on their faces when there's a bomb. What war? They're apolitical, guys. How could you? What did they do? Of coooourse they can call a Ukrainian a cowshed animal and still be apolitical (in russian of course, so you, their western friend, don't think bad of them). They can mock any language that got trapped under the empire however they please and not notice any oppressive undertones. You all did not hear what they think about Belarussian or Ukrainian — NOT when they're confronted, but when they speak in their space and in their language.

Image 1, “Dead languages of russia”

Image 2, “Guess why the fuck there are so many nationalities in ruzzian empire and why is that their culture is being erased. A bonus question: by whom? An extra hard question: do ordinary russians think that these people have the same social status as them? Do they think that some nationalities are subhuman?”

Of course they call for “peace”, because, you see, war is bad, because fuck the war! — because it's a surface-area nice thing they can say to get friends, because they're too “pure” to follow up with “they should give up so the killings stop giving me a bad reputation and I DO NOT GIVE A SINGLE SHIT about death when it's not on my Twitter feed”.

I know what a Westerner would think about this. At the very, very best, literally peak compassion I've met maybe twice, it would be: “Damn this is xenophobic, but I bet they're going through a lot right now, so I won't tell them that they're wrong”. And the funny thing is that I am not wrong. They're just nice to you, because your nation is not the funny one that belongs in the stables. If they're an opposition, they just want a better russia, not a free Ukraine.

And I'm talking about “leftists” here (not sure if it's the correct term, like, politically), the ones being befriended and cherished online. Shit the openly genocidal ones produce, which are many, is far beyond Western comprehension.

I was scrolling Instagram Reels and everything was fine, until I saw a video of a Ukrainian girl dubbing anime.

Honestly, I forgot what a pleasure is communication with not all Russians

She’s a cool girl but why she doesn’t speak Russian?

Well, I don’t know. Because other languages exist? Oh, wait

And now write in a human language

Explanation: a human language is any other language that is not Ukrainian, cause you know, Ukrainian language is an animal language

The Ukrainian language is a rural Russian. That’s why a lot of people find it funny. We haven’t been to the village, haven’t heard «бурак» (a twisted Ukrainian word for beetroot) and «кавун» (a Ukrainian word for watermelon).

The good old Russian belief that Ukrainian is a language of uneducated people from the countryside

South Slavic forms of Russian are quite similar to each other, do you also laugh at Serbian language or South Western Czech language?

It seems this person was trying to talk some sense into the previous user but South Western Czech is a South Slavic form of Russian????

Actually, no politics or something, but Ukrainian sounds somehow, I don’t know, like a rural language

A few moments later

500k dead pigs. It’s not enough, we need more

What did happened to ‘no politics’?

It’s common for Russians to call Ukrainians pigs, by the way

The most useless dubbing

It’s useless because it’s Ukrainian. Nothing new

Who might find the rural language, which only makes you laugh and smile, useful? You, even the Ukrainians themselves, don’t speak it

There are only two types of Russians: who thinks that no people speak Ukrainian in Ukraine, and who thinks that evil people who speak Ukrainian violate rights of Russian speakers in Ukraine

Weird, I’m so accustomed to reading such comments for all these years that I don’t have any emotional response to the insults.