Posted on 03/01/2022 7:10:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
NHL player agent Dan Milstein, who represents a majority of the Russian-born players in the league, told ESPN his clients are experiencing "disturbing levels" of harassment and believes draft-eligible players are already being discriminated against because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"The discrimination and racism these Russian and Belarusian players are facing right now is remarkable," Milstein told ESPN in an interview on Tuesday. "We're being set back 30 years. I have players calling me, parents calling me. They're concerned whether they'll be able to play, whether they'll be safe."
Milstein, who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, immigrated in the United States in 1991 at age 16 as a political refugee. He is now a U.S. citizen and represents more than 75% of the NHL's Russian- and Belarusian-born players, including Tampa Bay Lightning stars Nikita Kucherov and Andrei Vasilevskiy and New York Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin.
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Racism.
That's funny. Russian isn't a race, genius.
You wanna dance, you gotta pay the band.
No sympathy for them.
Online Russian language teachers are also being harassed.
Yep, the Russian Vloggers I watch are getting a lot of abuse.
Even Bald and Bankrupt, who is no Putin fan, was getting harassed for “humanizing” the Russian people.
Just like the anti-German hysteria before WWI.
Pretty simple choice - public denunciations of Putin and renunciation of Russian citizenship,
Or GTFOH.
And you can bet all of the hate directed at these Russian players is coming from those “open-minded” leftists.
I've been following the anti-war protests in St. Petersburg. Man, the authorities are really brutal in dealing with the protestors. They have major guts when they're going out despite they know they'll get their a$$es kicked. We should send Colin Kaepernick to Russia and see what "brutality" is really like there.
Without a doubt, they are convinced Putin stole the 2016 election from Hillary.
But our laws do include national origin. If someone is legally entitled to work in the US either by citizenship or green card, you can’t turn them down based on where they or their ancestors are from.
Cancel them all…guilt by association.
Just like all republicans and their support of the Jan 6 insurrection…
I’m not buyin’ it.
But we don't want the Irish!
And for anti vaxxers either…cancel them all…
Russian babies should be killed up to and after birth…
There is no more covid. No need for shots. Haven’t you been paying attention
You are a special kind of stupid.
They’re hockey players. Not direct representatives of Putin.
Don’t care
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