I probably am boring and over-sensitive
Dec. 15th, 2009 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
but there are things that annoy me to no end. Maybe it is a cautionary tale about dangers of random browsing of the Internets: don't stray from the path, there might be idiots...
I went to Alternative history forums (alternativehistory.com, I believe - don't want to dig up a link) following a link to some maps of zombie apocalypse. I have nothing against a good zombie apocalypse, as long as it doesn't really happen of course.
After seeing rather inventive maps I wanted to see what else is there, and of course, posts with words "Russian" in the name do tend attract my attention. So I clicked.
People in that particular post discussed an amusing hypothesis: what if in 2012 all ethnic Russians all die?
Is it weird that I am having serious problems with this idea? I kind of want to wash it off my brain, but maybe I am overly sensitive, and amusing possibility of disappearance of nations and ethnicities is a fun intellectual pastime? Or I shouldn't judge people, because they don't mean it seriously? Or who would miss Russians anyway, they are all evil?
I am a boring stuck up with no sense fun...
I went to Alternative history forums (alternativehistory.com, I believe - don't want to dig up a link) following a link to some maps of zombie apocalypse. I have nothing against a good zombie apocalypse, as long as it doesn't really happen of course.
After seeing rather inventive maps I wanted to see what else is there, and of course, posts with words "Russian" in the name do tend attract my attention. So I clicked.
People in that particular post discussed an amusing hypothesis: what if in 2012 all ethnic Russians all die?
Is it weird that I am having serious problems with this idea? I kind of want to wash it off my brain, but maybe I am overly sensitive, and amusing possibility of disappearance of nations and ethnicities is a fun intellectual pastime? Or I shouldn't judge people, because they don't mean it seriously? Or who would miss Russians anyway, they are all evil?
I am a boring stuck up with no sense fun...
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Date: 2009-12-16 01:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-19 03:47 am (UTC)but killing (or imagining dead) people based on their ethnicity - I thought it is well-established as in really bad taste.
::sighs at humans::
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Date: 2009-12-16 05:37 am (UTC)What a weird and offensive thing for people to spend their time imagining. I don't think you're being overly sensitive at all.
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Date: 2009-12-19 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 03:18 pm (UTC)Ну, что ж всё правильно, страна большая, людей много, они разные... Ну, и строго говоря, именно такая форма "русофобии" -- в виду гипотезы, по-моему, существенно слабее той формы антиамериканизма, что цветёт и пахнет в России. Ну, правда, одно дело -- предположить, что будет, если "русские исчезнут", на специфическом форуме, где собираются люди со специфическими интересами и вкусами, и несколько другое -- высказывать желание, чтобы "пиндосы" не просто исчезли, а испытали всякие кары, на широких общественно-политических форумах, и не один забрёдший "не туда" фрик, а толпа вполне адекватных в других отношениях людей.
Это я к тому, что всё познаётся в сравнении. Это раз. И ещё к тому, что на этом сравнительном примере мы ещё раз убеждаемся в пользе и эффективности политкорректности :)
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Date: 2009-12-19 03:38 am (UTC)Тут форум был в целом любопытный, но вот конкретно это предположение - предположение смерти людей по этническому признаку - имеет достаточно противный привкус само по себе, и мне казалось это общепризнанным дурным тоном.
вопрос " а что будет, если население РФ вдруг уменьшится на 90%" так бы не задел, думаю. В конце концов на том же форуме был много умных и не очень вполне катастрофических сценариев для всех стран.