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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, depicting people as monkeys is generally rooted pretty explicitly in racism, and even white eastern europeans have been subject to racism from western Europe. Read what Emma Goldman wrote about that "conniving slanty eyed Asian"(paraphrased) Stalin.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

When have racist depictions of Eastern Europeans as monkeys been a thing?