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Re:The news industry was complicit in the opioid crisis by deogeo on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @12:35PM (#21061964)
> she's an immigrant from Russia.

Most Russians were literally owned by their landlords until 1861 [1]. After that, they suffered the most deaths of any country in both world wars, and many famines and purges under Stalin, and extreme repression in general in the Soviet Union.

Try not to frame her as completely ignorant of oppression.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia

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Re:The news industry was complicit in the opioid crisis by equalunique on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:22PM (#21063624)
Great points, and I didn't mean to, especially as a reflection of "all Russians" or something like that.
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