They also have the intrinsic eagerness to please westerners so they can sit at cool white people table, but that's sadly common everywhere outside the inner circle of the imperial core.

To be honest, with the amount of Western Russophobia seen on display in Western news and social media, which while Lemmy is an aggregator but still serves as a social media space, I really wouldn't blame anyone outside the global West having a deep distrust of Westerners, and I understand the hatred, as well. While I don't think it really serves most of the global population to stubbornly cling to these things so much as the criminal ultrawealthy, it does serve some purpose of self - preservation.

On a side note, chatty Cathy stopped chatting with me, after I asked questions in this space about the other accounts, despite receiving no answers. Could be a coincidence, could not be, but the timing is certainly interesting, since they're still going strong, otherwise. Just makes my earlier comment stand out in bas relief, to me: Not everyone who smiles is friend, nor everyone who snarls is for.

Yeah... i mean he also taught me a slur called "churka" (чурка). He told me it literally meant a sawed off tree stump that just sits there doing nothing, and that it’s used mostly against darker skinned immigrants

I have many Belarusian family members and ex-friends who's "distrust" materializes as blatant and aggressive racism, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, and chauvinism.

You do not know what you are wishing for.

you might want to edit or remove your response because OP just clarified this is about racism and the russian person in question called them a racial slur