Ukraine told critics of the pace of its three-month-old counteroffensive to "shut up" on Thursday, the sharpest signal yet of Kyiv's frustration at leaks from Western officials that say its forces are advancing too slowly.
And that law forbids people from speaking Russian… how?
Love how liberals act really fucking smart 99% of the time and suddenly get really fucking stupid as soon as their shit is called on.
How about a friendly game of whataboutism? What about if the US right wing succeeded in making English the official language of the United States? What would happen to all the people who speak Spanish primarily?
(Psst… are we not talking about the killings then? All the pogroms and murders sure seem to have gotten left on the wayside of this conversation.)
Russia has been trying to eradicate the Ukrainian language since Catherine the Great
Even if that was true and not some harebrained ahistorical overgeneralisation what does that have to do with how the Ukrainian state treats it’s Russian-speaking population? We are talking about an Ukrainian law, imposed by the Ukrainian state on Ukrainian citizens living on Ukrainian-controlled territory. How is trying to eradicate the Russian language in Ukraine preventing the alleged Russian policy of eradicating the Ukrainian language in Russia? How does one wrong justify another?
Ukrainian has been an official minority language of the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR and schools in Russia’s new territories are teaching an Ukrainian-language curriculum to students whose families so desires. There’s probably plenty of bad things to say about the Russian education system but giving a language you are hellbent on eradicating official status and teaching it at schools seems like an odd thing to do.
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe
The Venice Commission, the Council of Europe’s top advisory body on constitutional matters, said that several of the law’s articles, including article 25, “failed to strike a fair balance” between promoting the Ukrainian language and safeguarding minorities’ linguistic rights.
You have no clue what you’re talking about. Maybe sit down and listen a little?
You’re saying that small astroturfed internet personalities are the Russian Federation’s primary means of legitmizing it’s interests in the public eye? Bigger than oligarch-owned news station and media empires?
Can you name some of these bought or individually manipulated small content creators?
By a government that passed laws against using their language and that detonated bombs on them
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https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-language-law-russian/31656441.html
Note that I’m using an explicitly western funded propaganda vehicle for my citation. I didn’t have to do that. I did it purposefully to clown on you.
Shut the fuck up. You just took a factual stand on a topic you did no research on. Your opinion is of no value. Stop sharing it.
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Love how liberals act really fucking smart 99% of the time and suddenly get really fucking stupid as soon as their shit is called on.
How about a friendly game of whataboutism? What about if the US right wing succeeded in making English the official language of the United States? What would happen to all the people who speak Spanish primarily?
(Psst… are we not talking about the killings then? All the pogroms and murders sure seem to have gotten left on the wayside of this conversation.)
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Even if that was true and not some harebrained ahistorical overgeneralisation what does that have to do with how the Ukrainian state treats it’s Russian-speaking population? We are talking about an Ukrainian law, imposed by the Ukrainian state on Ukrainian citizens living on Ukrainian-controlled territory. How is trying to eradicate the Russian language in Ukraine preventing the alleged Russian policy of eradicating the Ukrainian language in Russia? How does one wrong justify another?
Ukrainian has been an official minority language of the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR and schools in Russia’s new territories are teaching an Ukrainian-language curriculum to students whose families so desires. There’s probably plenty of bad things to say about the Russian education system but giving a language you are hellbent on eradicating official status and teaching it at schools seems like an odd thing to do.
This ECRML?
Huh, wonder what the Council of Europe thinks of Ukraine’s language law:
You have no clue what you’re talking about. Maybe sit down and listen a little?
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What, in your opinion, are the most common outlets of Russian propaganda?
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You’re saying that small astroturfed internet personalities are the Russian Federation’s primary means of legitmizing it’s interests in the public eye? Bigger than oligarch-owned news station and media empires?
Can you name some of these bought or individually manipulated small content creators?