Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict


CBS News

This isn't a place ... like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict
raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively
European ... city where you wouldn't expect that, or hope that it's
going to happen.

Source

BBC News

'It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue
eyes and blonde hair...being killed every day by Putin's missiles'

Source

Al Jazeera

What's compelling is just looking at them, the way they're dressed,
these are prosperous...middle class people. These are not obviously
refugees trying to get away from areas in the middle east that are
still in a big state of war, these are not people trying to get away
from areas in north Africa, they look like any European family that
you would live next door to.

Source

NBC News

These are not refugees from Syria, these are refugees from
neighbouring Ukraine....These are Christians, so, white, they're very
similar to people who live in Poland

Source

ITV News

Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a
developing, third world nation, this is Europe.

Source

BFM TV

We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin, we’re talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives.

Source

The Telegraph

They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations. It can happen to anyone

Source

Other examples

French media doing the same

Example 1

Bulgarian PM

These are not the refugees we are used to. They are Europeans, intelligent, educated people, some are IT programmers...this is not the usual refugee wave of people with an unknown past. No European country is afraid on them.

Translation source

Other source

Black people blocked from escaping Ukraine/entering nearby countries

A Nigerian medical student at Poland/Ukraine border (Medyka-Shehyni)
told me she has been waiting 7hrs to cross, she says border guards are
stopping black people and sending them to the back of the queue,
saying they have to let 'Ukrainians' through first.

Source

Official Ukrainian National Guard Twitter account

Azov fighters of the National Guard greased the bullets with lard against the Kadyrov orcs

Source

Others (unconfirmed/unverified)

We are currently at the Ukraine-Poland border. Their Police and Army
refused to let Africans cross they only allow Ukrainian.

Source/video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Ukrainian forces brutally beating Indian Students in Ukraine after India abstained on UN vote against Russia.

Source 1

Source 2


Links in order, all archived
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227200905/https://twitter.com/incontextmedia/status/1497608440134340610
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201110/https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497718700547346433
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201116/https://twitter.com/DocRobotnivik/status/1497895651887271938
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201122/https://twitter.com/ruchirsharma_1/status/1497655099979714563
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201127/https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1497878168216252416
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201131/https://twitter.com/RioMoussallem/status/1497535170450231301
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201135/https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1497652701890555914
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201145/https://twitter.com/PierreABISAAB/status/1497592136329531394
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201146/https://twitter.com/VictorPPetrov/status/1497600362626359296
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201149/https://twitter.com/TihomirSabchev/status/1497264454236610563
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201151/https://twitter.com/stephhegarty/status/1497603013799784449
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227200242/https://twitter.com/ng_ukraine/status/1497924614865002497
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201157/https://twitter.com/nzekiev/status/1497805019311218689
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201159/https://twitter.com/Damilare_arah/status/1497654141350522880
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227201208/https://twitter.com/Damilare_arah/status/1497650917088374790

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Pub: 27 Feb 2022 22:55 UTC
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