Ukrainians are living under a credible threat of violence and death coming directly from Russia’s criminal invasion, and we absolutely should be providing Ukrainians with life-saving security wherever and whenever we can.
The writer explains that helping Ukrainians is right, but the reasons must not be racist.
middle-class people. These are not obviously refugees looking to get away from areas in the Middle East that are still in a big state of war.
Shows racism racial and class prejudice.
Righteous outrage immediately mounted online, as it should have in this case, and the veteran correspondent quickly apologized
People reacted strongly, and the journalist apologized, but the author argues that many other people have said similar things.
by describing Ukraine as “civilized”, isn’t he really telling us that Ukrainians, unlike Afghans and Iraqis, are more deserving of our sympathy than Iraqis or Afghans?
The author criticizes him, saying the word “civilized” means Ukrainians deserve more sympathy than Middle Eastern people.
And this is not a developing, third world nation. This is Europe!”
Shows how reporters argues that war is normal for poorer or non-Western countries.