My granddad was unquestionably racist. And he came up against the absolute idiocy of his own beliefs in those final years.

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My grandmother is 94. She’s not a racist. My grandfather was 94, nearly 95 when he died. And, in the home where he lived for the last three years of his life, he was cared for by people from all over the world. In his dying hours, the presence of a nurse from Jamaica who he liked a lot soothed him.

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Yes I think the colonizer has more agency than the colonized.

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If Russia is responding to other countries we would expect some period wherein it behaved differently. With the halfway exception of Lenin, no such period exists

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Because you can’t name a date Russian soldiers were not occupying Russia’s neighbors?

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