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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TAILIANNA" data-source="post: 39798" data-attributes="member: 554">Unbelivably intresting article its crazy whats coming out now The invasion of Ukraine has been horrifying to witness.Early on, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/28/ukraine-coverage-media-racist-biases/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4" target="_blank">some</a> observers <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/27/western-media-coverage-ukraine-russia-invasion-criticism" target="_blank">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/charlie-dagata-cbs-apology-ukraine-iraq-b2024265.html" target="_blank">expressed</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/saratu/status/1497700938269835269" target="_blank">the idea</a> that the invasion of Ukraine is especially horrifying because, as CBS reporter Charlie D’Agata, who was in Kyiv, put it, “This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European — I have to choose those words carefully too — city." (D’Agata later issued <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/cbs-charlie-dagata-backlash-ukraine-civilized/" target="_blank">an apology</a>.)People of color are not surprised. A large body of research finds that Whiteness informs who is deemed <a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/race-and-the-undeserving-poor/9781788210386" target="_blank">deserving</a> <a href="https://nyupress.org/9780814736708/the-politics-of-disgust/" target="_blank">of</a> <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.12317" target="_blank">welfare</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/16/americans-views-of-trade-arent-just-about-economics-theyre-also-about-race/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6" target="_blank">protectionism</a>, <a href="https://harvardlawreview.org/1993/06/whiteness-as-property/" target="_blank">property</a>, <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68329#:~:text=In%20The%20Purpose%20of%20Intervention,the%20ways%20they%20have%20intervened." target="_blank">security</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Contract-Charles-W-Mills/dp/0801484634" target="_blank">freedom,</a> <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68329#:~:text=In%20The%20Purpose%20of%20Intervention,the%20ways%20they%20have%20intervened." target="_blank">humanitarianism</a> and more. <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/why-is-there-no-nato-in-asia-collective-identity-regionalism-and-the-origins-of-multilateralism/B8BE13AF44D732DD9E749E7AE9A861EB" target="_blank">NATO’s very inception</a> — too — was birthed through appeals to Whiteness.1. NATO was born out of a fear of White slaveryAmerican commitments to NATO were born out of the fear that <a href="https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/nieuws/users/bcoppiet/118risse.pdf" target="_blank">communism</a> would spread in Europe. However, communism was seen to pose a threat not just to “freedom” — but specifically to <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179469/white-freedom" target="_blank">White freedom</a>, as historian Tyler Stovall and others have shown.In the U.S. South, <a href="https://lsupress.org/books/detail/black-struggle-red-scare/" target="_blank">communism</a> was seen as synonymous with <a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469613871/defending-white-democracy/" target="_blank">desegregation</a>. Looking abroad, arch-segregationist Sen. James Eastland (D-Miss.) in 1947 <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1947/04/11/senate-section" target="_blank">explained</a> his support for U.S. commitments to Europe:<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/22/calling-ukrainian-refugees-more-civilized-than-syrians-requires-willful-amnesia/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_15" target="_blank">Calling Ukrainian refugees more 'civilized' than Syrians requires willful amnesia</a>Rest of article:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/11/nato-ukraine-refugees-whiteness/[/URL]</blockquote>

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