Am I Welcome Here?

Note

Due to many uncomfortable interactions and misunderstandings, I decided to make this page.

I can't possibly stop you from viewing my pages or attempts to interact with me, but I hope you'll be mature enough to just ignore me or block me if you're unwelcome here.

This page doesn't mean I'm open for arguing or trying to explain something to you. If you disagree and you feel offended, feel free to go away. Only good faith questions are okay.

I will not list more obvious points here, like homophobia, biphobia, racism, nazism and similar, because this page is mostly for "indieweb" population and most often uncomfortable interactions here.

Red fascism

You're not welcome if you identify as communist, maxist-leninist, stalinist, tankie, similar and/or...

• use the hammer and sickle ["red swastika"]
• glorify, deny or whitewash USSR's and CCP's crimes
• are Holodomor denier

Socialists and anarchists are welcome though!

Imperialism

You're not welcome if you identify as russian (not ethnicity, but national identity) and...

• refuse to acknowledge russian imperialism and your responsibility for it
• deny russian imperialism history
• support, deny or whitewash russian aggression against Ichkeria, Ukraine, Georgia, Syria, Moldova
• do not recognize territorial integrity of Ukraine, including Luhansk, Donetsk oblasts and Crimea
• do not support the disintegration of russia as a state
• deny the right of indigenous peoples (that are currently colonized by russia) to be independent from russia
• are "apolitical" or "neutral"

Misc

You're not welcome if you identify as radfem or TERF.

You're not welcome if you support Israel's aggression against Palestine.

You're not welcome if you're into westsplaining.

Things to read

• Not all criticism is Russophobic: on decolonial approach to Russian culture. by Lia Dostlieva, Andrii Dostliev
• Cancel culture vs. execute culture: Why Russian manuscripts don’t burn, but Ukrainian manuscripts burn all too well. by Amelina Victoria