Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "When Ancient History Gets POLITICIZED" video.

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31:58 I got a few interesting examples for this. Khazars (who were Turkic nomads from Central Asia, so neither white Europeans nor Middle-Eastern Semitic) were claimed to be ancestors of Ukrainian Cossacks in our first Constitution from 1710. Seriously. It seems the reason Pylyp Orlyk wrote them was to get a counter-point to having a separate, yet at the same time ancient ancestry, to muscovite claims of being descendants of Rus' (originally a name for viking tribes on Volga and Dnipro) AND Polish Sarmatism movement... All three are very dubious (muscovy is not Nordic or Scandavian and Poland has almost nothing to do with Iranian-speaking Sarmatians). Nowadays, any mention of "Khazar" is usually just a dog whistle for antisemitism... as it is on your example.
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@davepx1 We've seen pyres of Ukrainian books burned by invaders in Donbas, claiming it's "fascist literature" the half burned covers read "Біблія" & "Шекспір".
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Yeah see his part on Jewish and Palestinian claims to show how it gets ridiculous with each blaming another of being effectively illegal migrants and denying ancient heritage. It's absolutely a thing in Anatolia and surroundings as well with Turks vs Armenians vs Greeks vs Kurds vs Syrians etc.
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Our activity is fighting orcs, and our factory spec is being elves... What part of Ukraine I am from?
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@JMM33RanMA Gaza is like the one conflict where it IS actually "both sides". Especially compared to such one-sided things as Assad massacring his own people, Myanmar junta destroying local villages on helicopters or the russia... everything they do.
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> It’s impossible for any Abrahamic adherent to consider anywhere other than the Levant and it’s immediate surroundings to be holy land Not exclusively... Mormons and some other American offshoots of Protestants claim (falsely) that America is the REAL lands from the Bible, and also by New Testament, Jesus kind of downplays the importance of a PLACE (any place) in His talk with a Samaritan woman, so any Christian technically can claim ANYWHERE else as another "Holy Land". Notably, for us it's Kyiv. The place where Rus' was first Christened, down with a myth of Andrew the Disciple visiting the hills it stands on and proclaiming that it would be a place for a great city. That's why russian imperialism keeps trying their 2-3 day march on it, as their entire racial supremacy theory doesn't work without holding Ukrainian capital. Hell, biggest denomination of Christians is Roman Catholic and their Holy Place is Rome, in Italy... And we Orthodox kind of hold Constantinople in similar regard.
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@davepx1 It's actually much simpler than that: nationalism of people wanting independence of a colonial empire = good. Nationalism of said colonial empire trying to subjugate other peoples = bad. Westerners associate more closely with the second part, that's how you see Western media almost ALWAYS write about things from the perspective of a colonialist: notice how many BBC and CNN correspondents talk about "great russian culture", and how they were shocked to see internet cafes in Kyiv, as they always seen Ukraine as a tribe of local "Indians" standing in the way of great white muh tradishun of Tolstoyevsky, dedovschina and snokhachestvo.
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@rizkyadiyanto7922 ah yes, people who were persecuted for thousands of years in Europe for being Jewish, suddenly become "Europeans" when trying to move out of the continent where they were put into gas chambers. Brilliant, Jews are indeed "Schrodinger's whites", they're considered whatever makes it easier to attack them at the moment. As a Ukrainian, we kinda see the point, where we "don't deserve help" because we're "too white", and also "don't deserve to be cared about" because we're "not REALLY like white people". ANY excuse for xenophobia.
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Wait isn't Conan a Cimerrian? I hardly know much about them, we only learned a little bit in ancient history of Ukraine. Something about blood of your enemies, women weeping?
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