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2. CBS News "This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan...This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city" - CBS foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata

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3. Al-Jazeera "What's compelling is looking at them, the way they are dressed. These are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from the Middle East...or North Africa. They look like any European family that you'd live next door to."

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4. BFM TV (France) "We are in the 21st century, we are in a European city and we have cruise missile fire as though we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine!?”

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5. The Daily Telegraph This time, war is wrong because the people look like us and have Instagram and Netflix accounts. It's not in a poor, remote country any more. - Daniel Hannan

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6. ITV (UK) "The unthinkable has happened...This is not a developing, third world nation; this is Europe!"

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7. BFM TV (France) (again) "It's an important question. We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing...We're talking about Europeans."

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8. If you speak French, sample from the racism buffet on offer.

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· Feb 27

50 nuances de racisme

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There was another fella with a tiny moustache who said the same thing..

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Those of us old enough to remember the mid-1990s got to hear this same crap being said about the war in Yugoslavia.

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I wonder if they'll make a movie about it with Owen Wilson.

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· Feb 27

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“We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin, we’re talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives.”

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People with "blue eyes and blond" hair being killed, and that's what's making him sad!

When people tell you who they are, believe them! Racist/haters/jerks

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The outrage in the Western media, is not so much that white ppl are fleeing war, it’s more because we are not the ones waging the war. How dare #Russia, war is our domain

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Funny cause the first guy does not seem to have blond hair and blue eyes himself. I’m also pretty sure he’s of Georgian decent, given his last name. He’d be surprise how his own ancestors looked like and who ruled them for centuries. They were not blond lol

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People in the global South needs to this. That's how they think. They are still the colonizer and we are enslaved colonized people. Have no illusion about them. These people are yet to be civilized.

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Who's they?

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If only they had dark hair and eyes it'd be so much easier 🤦🏻‍♂️

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· Feb 26

MP for the best-polling party on the Danish right: "we must open our arms as much to Ukrainians as we are tough and rejecting against migrants from Africa." No words... twitter.com/jppolitik/stat…

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Once a country starts dropping bombs on people or starving them with sanctions, how civilized are they, really?

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And they block African citizens from boarding the trains to bordering nations.

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US, Ukraine vote against anti-Nazism UNGA resolution

Poland is refusing them entry.

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The United States, which has long championed "human rights," voted against a resolution to combat the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism, and xenophobia.

Svetlana Avrakhova

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USA sanctions kill people

Why would US unite with Ukraine on nazism? Maybe they know something we don’t? Otherwise, nazi is not a popular ideology in the west (officially)

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It really is very illuminating

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Simon

@Qoxy147

· Feb 26

Pay close attention to how the news will (rightly) humanise the refugees from this: personal stories, children, sympathetic interviews. Now think: have you heard this with Yemen? Iraq? It’s exactly as Chomsky details in Manufacturing Consent. In real time.

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Blue eyed & blonde haired just like him

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This is not TV coverage, but it made my blood boil:

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· Feb 27

Watch how they are threatening to shoot us! We are currently at the Ukraine -Poland border. Their Police and Army refused to let Africans cross they only allow Ukrainian. Some have slept here for 2 days under this scorching cold weather, while many have gone back to Lviv.

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The racism is real, & they aren't really trying to hide it. They think, as if, we live in the Outlands - the barren wasteland portrayed in the popular animation movie "The Lion King", where access to food and water is scarce, and black-skinned 'people' fight to maintain hegemony.

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morozillerЪ

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