For cripes sake, stop canceling innocent Russians

Hot Air ^ | 03/09/2022 | ALLAHPUNDIT

[Kid Shelleen]

I should say up front that I’m okay with canceling those who engage in actual fascist theatrics:

I’m onboard with canceling Putin’s personal friends and cronies too.

Oh, and the entire Russian economy. That should also be canceled until Russia withdraws.

Threatening Russian performers and making a bonfire of Russia’s culture is where I get off, though.

[Kid Shelleen]

Contrast the backlash against Chinese in the Wuhan era vs. the Russians in the Ukraine invasion era.
Do we need a Slavic anti hate bill?

[marcusmaximus]

For cripes sake Putin, get the hell out of Ukraine!

[libh8er]

Idea is to make them feel pain so they will turn against their govt. If there is no pain they will remain uninformed and indifferent.

[dfwgator]

The problem is that if Russians never feel totally accepted by the outside world, they will keep supporting leaders like Putin who dwell on their past.

This is the mistake that was made in the early nineties, and it led to them embracing Putin.

Let’s not make the same mistake again.

But I have a feeling our State Department will insist on doing it again. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

[proxy_user]

if they are not Russian citizens, their government is Joe Biden. Many of them probably voted for Trump, especially if they emigrated from the Soviet Union.

[BobL]

“For cripes sake Putin, get the hell out of Ukraine!”

Don’t worry, he’ll leave, but not by our timeline. He’ll leave after he accomplishes what he set out to do (hopefully without us starting a nuclear war).

[Alberta's Child]

“Putin is peace.” — George W. Bush /sarcasm off/

[Theoria]

Little late for the sad stories. Nobody cared about innocent, starving Iraqis back in the day as well.

[Chickensoup]

Time to cancel the cancel culture.

This is an exact repeat of 1917 18 Russia worldwide.

Bolshevism

[Tench_Coxe]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893

Not sure what he has to do with 2022 Russia, but ok.
I agree with author.

And I'm beginning to think some of the people engaging in agitprop on this site would be shouting for the incarceration of people Russian extraction in the US if they thought they could get away with it. Yes, they're that bad.

[PghBaldy]

We should do what was done to Germany after WWI, just for the heck of it. /sarcasm

[Eleutheria5]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J__ZdvsZaE

[bert]

——Time to cancel the cancel culture.-—

Actually it is the people who are our enemies

It is.......Time to cancel the cancel cultureists.

We must rid America of this people plague

[Scarlett156]

I’m sure all those bad cancel-culture people are going to read allahpundit’s fine article and they are totally going to have a change of heart. Nice going, “allahpundit”!! You have done your good deed for the day and made the world a better place with your....whining about classical musick. (Symphonic musicians belong to unions, by the way. They get paid vacations, sick days, etc. They’re working and paying their bills. Nobody’s going to miss the “1812 Overture” that much. They ARE going to miss being able to drive to work when gas is $10.00 a gallon. A night at the symphony can wait.)

There’s an invasion going on HERE IN THE USA. I don’t care about the Ukrainians OR the Ru$$ians. I care about the United States and we are being invaded.

Also, our electoral process has been heavily compromised. By all appearances, the GOP should win big this November but I’m starting to have some premonitions to the contrary.

Cancelling your favorite overplayed piece of musick is small potatoes compared to cancelling a duly-elected president. But let’s just forget about Trump. He’s old news and nobody liked him, especially the “pundits.”

RUSSIA, Y’ALL. Maybe this time next year Russians will be at our Southern Border and you can write a column about how awful it was to cancel “Red Dawn.”

[Eleutheria5]

Send out anything that flies, including drones, and drop leaflets, interactive disks and flash drives, anything at all that can convey info, with high definition photos of the carnage, and messages such as, “This is what Putin has sent your son to Ukraine to do.”

[dfwgator]

Once the Germans were all warlike and mean
But that couldn’t happen again

We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then

-Tom Lehrer

[Gnome1949]

American leaders need a villain in Putin to distract from the FAR WORSE leaders in China. Putin’s reluctance to bribe American politicians as China has done makes Putin a great whipping boy.

Ukraine has been looted of billions by American crooked politicians. They hate their big piggy bank being taken over by someone who won’t pay them billions in bribes and kickbacks.

Murderer?

Putin is an amateur at murder compared to those in charge in China.

American leadership also has a history of murdering millions of innocents in Vietnam, Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

There is a long list of U.S. presidents with blood on their hands from murdering civilians across the globe.

[centermass_socrates]

I’ve saw some morons pouring out perfectly good vodka yesterday in protest. AUUGH.

[Skywise]

Ah poor Analpundit. This is what you’ve been calling for all along. You deal with the consequences of your hate.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

“Orange man bad” — Everyone.

I wouldn’t want to share any borscht with Putin, but I would have liked to see Trump able to work with Russia, unfettered. Less war and Fauci labs could be nice to see. Less NATO, too, if it is the Swamp that destroyed Trump.