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Liveblog: from the frontline in Ukraine
Ask me anything. A few disorganized notes:
1. Pretty fireworks aside, the real story here is at the borders. Women and children heading away from danger. Men heading towards danger. That’s not something we see much of these days, so I want to hammer this into everybody’s heads. Women and children moving away from danger. Men heading towards danger.
2. Where is all the talk of male privilege and toxic masculinity now? Men under the age of 60 - that’s six-zero - are forbidden to leave the country. They are being drafted to fight. I saw a pencil-necked 90-pound student who was turned back from the border. He will go and fight instead. Men heading towards danger. Women and children heading away from danger.
3. This is all very confusing to brown foreigners. They are starting to pile up at the border, muscular military-age men, all of them. They are willing to accept the hospitality of Ukraine, but will not return the favor by defending Ukraine. They can’t cross the border, so they complain about being discriminated against. It’s true, but it’s anti-male sexism. They don’t understand. They’ve probably never encountered feminism. “Toxic masculinity” is just a code word for “white masculinity” after all.
It’s hard to blame them for their confusion. In the wars where they come from, it is the women and children who shield the men, not the other way around.
4. Has anybody in the media asked about anti-Russian bigotry? After every terror attack we are told that micro aggressions towards Muslims was the real story. When COVID hit we were told to go eat bat soup because anti-Chinese bigotry was the true disease. Had anyone taken Russian vodka off the shelves during the Cold War, they would have been called redneck nazis. But now that Russia is no longer communist, they are off the Democrat pander list, so we get to hate all we want.
I saw one ethnic Russian being interviewed, and (without being asked) she mentioned multiple cases of bigotry, but only to say that she understood why, and had compassion for the haters. Have you ever heard a Muslim say that?
5. Putin is the most surprised of anybody. He really didn’t think that Ukrainians would fight. Who can blame him? Ukraine is defended by white men. Anyone who observes Western politics and culture from a distance has to come to the conclusion that white men are pathetic punching bags. In short, Putin is in the same information bubble that Democrats are in. And like Democrats after every election, he is saying the exact same thing: “where the hell did all of these white men come from? And why are they not bowing down?”
1. Pretty fireworks aside, the real story here is at the borders. Women and children heading away from danger. Men heading towards danger. That’s not something we see much of these days, so I want to hammer this into everybody’s heads. Women and children moving away from danger. Men heading towards danger.
2. Where is all the talk of male privilege and toxic masculinity now? Men under the age of 60 - that’s six-zero - are forbidden to leave the country. They are being drafted to fight. I saw a pencil-necked 90-pound student who was turned back from the border. He will go and fight instead. Men heading towards danger. Women and children heading away from danger.
3. This is all very confusing to brown foreigners. They are starting to pile up at the border, muscular military-age men, all of them. They are willing to accept the hospitality of Ukraine, but will not return the favor by defending Ukraine. They can’t cross the border, so they complain about being discriminated against. It’s true, but it’s anti-male sexism. They don’t understand. They’ve probably never encountered feminism. “Toxic masculinity” is just a code word for “white masculinity” after all.
It’s hard to blame them for their confusion. In the wars where they come from, it is the women and children who shield the men, not the other way around.
4. Has anybody in the media asked about anti-Russian bigotry? After every terror attack we are told that micro aggressions towards Muslims was the real story. When COVID hit we were told to go eat bat soup because anti-Chinese bigotry was the true disease. Had anyone taken Russian vodka off the shelves during the Cold War, they would have been called redneck nazis. But now that Russia is no longer communist, they are off the Democrat pander list, so we get to hate all we want.
I saw one ethnic Russian being interviewed, and (without being asked) she mentioned multiple cases of bigotry, but only to say that she understood why, and had compassion for the haters. Have you ever heard a Muslim say that?
5. Putin is the most surprised of anybody. He really didn’t think that Ukrainians would fight. Who can blame him? Ukraine is defended by white men. Anyone who observes Western politics and culture from a distance has to come to the conclusion that white men are pathetic punching bags. In short, Putin is in the same information bubble that Democrats are in. And like Democrats after every election, he is saying the exact same thing: “where the hell did all of these white men come from? And why are they not bowing down?”
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