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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 2d

And it’s much less possible when you are (like Platner) a massive military history nerd

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 2d

Because it is a very specific image, which was designed by the Nazis for the Nazis, as a way of expressing membership of the Waffen SS- essentially, saying “I’m not just an everyday Nazi, I’m an UltraNazi”

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 4d

lot of nazi news out of the states recently. hitler praise in dms, swastika signs, tattoos, nazi salutes. more nazi stuff than is normal for sure

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 5d

Tell a Parsi, a Siddhi, a Meitei, a Tamil, an Ongan and an Anglo-Indian that they’re all ”the same race”

They probably wouldn’t even take offence, they‘d be too busy laughing in your face.

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 5d

Do you think that “Indian” is an ethnicity? This is the equivalent of saying “Most people who live in America are Americans”.

India is one of the most diverse countries in the world, with over 2000 distinct ethnocultural groups, a fair few of which are descended from immigrants

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 5d

“Holy shit, ethnic Russians whose parents don’t let them learn Estonian have difficulty getting jobs in Estonia… clearly this is discrimination, those Estonians should just learn Russian!”

“Holy shit, Estonia’s putting resources into schools to teach Russophone kids Estonian? THIS IS GENOCIDE”

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 5d

I didn’t say it was a win, and I am one of the people who lost the right to vote-

All I am saying is that in the entire world, there’s less than a dozen countries who allow non-citizens to vote.

If non-citizen suffrage is so important to you, campaign for it in your own country.

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

I’d love to hear your explanation for what justified the deportation of Virve Eliste, a one-day-old girl. She died before her first birthday, of starvation- her mother’s labour camp rations didn’t allow her to produce enough milk.

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

70% were women, and children under 15. Less than half of them survived.

That was only the first wave, they did the same thing several times between 1944 and 1953. If a soviet officer wanted your house? Off on a cattle train. If you were considered to be practicing your culture too much? Train.

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

Are you aware of the 1941 ethnic cleansing of Estonian, Latvians and Lithuanians?

10,000 Estonian civilians were abducted without charge or trial, placed on trains designed for cattle, and sent to unpaid forced labour camps in Siberia. The oldest were in their 90s, the youngest were newborns.

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

If they had lived in Estonia for 5 years or longer, and were able to say “hello my name is (X)” in Estonian, they were entitled to citizenship. They recently removed the language requirement for those born after 95.

For non-Soviet immigrants, citizenship requires 10 years

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

Again, that claim is literally just untrue. Le Monde may choose to claim it, but it is not factual.

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

This is irrelevant to getting citizenship- most Estonians are also related to soldiers or guerrillas who killed nazis

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

They were given the option in 1991 to choose Russian, Estonian, or Grey Pass citizenship.

If they chose Russian citizenship, it makes their children Russian citizens- as per Russian law.

Do you expect Estonia to breach Russian law in order to impose citizenship on people who have turned it down?

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

No, most of them just applied for citizenship and got citizenship.

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

That article is either deliberate bullshit, or badly mistranslated from French.

If one of your parents has Estonian citizenship, you are a citizen.
If you are descended from anyone who lived in Estonia between 1918 and 1940, regardless of ethnicity, you are a citizen.

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

Yep, ever since they removed the A2 language requirement for those born after 95, a lot more people have taken the option.

(Note- this requirement was only removed for ethnic Russians- but when they are offered special treatment, it doesn’t make the news)

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

There are around 320,000 ethnic Russians in Estonia.

Of these, 72,000 have made the personal decision that they want Russian citizenship or a Grey Pass, not Estonian citizenship.

The other 248,000 chose Estonian citizenship, and can vote in Estonian elections.

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

This is just transparently false.

In the 90s, people were given a choice between taking Estonian citizenship, taking Russian citizenship, or taking a third option (the Grey Pass) which took benefits from both.

The overwhelming majority of ethnic Russians in Estonia took Estonian citizenship.

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

Americans love to go “You actually live in that country, so you’re clearly propagandised- I, however, have read roughly five Posts by people who do not live there, which makes me an Unbiased Expert,,,”

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(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

So what you’ve actually got is one true thing (Kristina Kallas is bad at maths), which you are using as proof for two other claims which you just made up for the sake of demonising a country you barely know a thing about

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

And if you see “person who doesn’t want to be invaded by an extremely powerful neighbour” and read it as “NATO freak”, that’s a you problem.

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

The situation you were trying to cynically defend is “the grandchildren of the settlers of this city want a monument to the soldiers who ethnically cleansed its inhabitants”

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

No, I compared it to the USSR carrying out extremely well-documented campaigns of ethnic cleansing against Estonians, Ingrians, Vods and other “undesirables”

They also fought the nazis- just like the Brits and Americans fought the nazis while also carrying out campaigns of ethnic cleansing.

(Parker, 2023) @redactedparker.bsky.social · 6d

When an Israeli colony in the West Bank builds a monument to the soldiers who ethnically cleansed the Palestinians living there, do you also think that monument needs to remain for all time?

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