Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "Interviews from Ukraine"
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Thank you for this video, it's good to hear everyone's point of view but the people I'm most impressed by are the ones who differentiate between phases of the war. I too believe that active, large-scale hostilities could realistically be over by the end of this year - meaning that reconstruction could begin, and at least some displaced people could go back home. But this war has, in many forms, been going on for years / decades / centuries (one of many reasons why I get so angry at those people who make it all about NATO), and it will take a long time to resolve all that. Also, russia will not sort itself out overnight, if ever: the country's heading into various civil conflicts, and since it has nuclear weapons what happens there, like what happens in the US, is everybody's problem. The person whose answer struck me the most is the woman who says "When every Ukrainian wipes out the russian in him." Internalised oppression is truly the hardest thing to eradicate. ❤🖤
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Thank you for this video, it's important to have public conversations about difficult topics. I think a similar video shot in the UK some time before the legalisation of same-sex civil partnerships would have yielded a similar sample: younger people overall more positive than the middle-aged and older - with the odd surprise with an older person who gets it - women much less likely to feel threatened by it than men.
There's someone who worries the children will suffer while completely oblivious to the fact that many children of LGBT parents are othered by society, and that's what hurts them, and there are a few people who are grudgingly "OK" with it as long as "it's not in their faces" - I would have liked those people to be asked follow-up questions (I always wonder what people mean by that, and to have any open manifestation of a sexual orientation or gender identity differing from the norm labelled as "propaganda" makes me nervous) but overall I think the neutral interviewing style really worked. As usual in these interviews, no one seemed afraid to express their opinion.
It does upset me a bit that social acceptance has to be tied to the EU and "moving West" rather than simply progress, the recognition and acceptance of human rights for all. Italy, for example, is still a deeply homophobic country (as well as corrupt, but that's another story), as is Poland, where, incidentally, women of any sexual orientation still have fewer rights than other European women. But I've been watching relevant content dating back to several years before the Revolution of Dignity, and Ukraine is definitely moving on.
Права людина понад усе! 💙💛
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