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Re:Russia and Belarus banned from holding world chess events by marcyb5st on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:17AM (#30499476)
I'd like to point out that, before calling 600M people racists, there are different explanations. "Social Identity Theory" [1] being one of them. We Europeans could simply see Ukraine belonging to the same group (ie another European country) and hence emotional responses about an injustice are enhanced. This leads to more support for a member of said group compared to the same thing happening to someone belonging to a larger group (ie humanity as a whole). This doesn't have to be about racism and it's a fallacy almost all humans have.

[1] https://www.simplypsychology.org/social-identity-theory.html....

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Re:Russia and Belarus banned from holding world chess events by lamp987 on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:24AM (#30499531)
in-group preference, aka implicit racial bias, is still racism.
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Re:Russia and Belarus banned from holding world chess events by orwin on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:24AM (#30501631)
I odn't think it is racial. I'm a Palestine supporter too, i housed Kazakh refugees recently, my mother housed Georgians, and had my very catholic, conservative family do the same in the 2000s. They aren't caucasians, and are ethnically close to Syrian (turkomongols i guess?). But they are Christians, and Coptics do have a really good reputation in France (or at least in my part of France). It has everything to do with how you dress, your accent, and how the media portrayed you in the last 10 years.
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Re:Russia and Belarus banned from holding world chess events by marcyb5st on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:50PM (#30502709)
Maybe we have different definitions of racism. In my view one is racist when considers a particular ethnicity superior to another.
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Re:Russia and Belarus banned from holding world chess events by bigbillheck on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:36AM (#30499635)
Sounds like racism to me.
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