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Has anyone else noticed NAFO types calling Russians (and sometimes just anyone who isn’t foaming at the mouth calling for endless war) “Muscovites” over the last few months? It seems to have replaced “orcs” in the lexicon of the people I regularly encounter online, and they use it like a racial slur. It kind of seems the NAFO types are having a hard time coming up with a catchy slur they can use against Russians specifically that isn’t a slur against Slavs in general.
I think because orks made some moderates uncomfortable after the initial bloodlust and indignation wore off, so they’ve had to move to making it seem like all of Russia are just Putin’s mindless puppets.
Libs are surprisingly okay with denying agency to the ‘uncivilised’ (a term which must be in quotation marks because Western ‘civilisation’ hasn’t managed to work out how to feed 1 billion people from the mountains of food stolen from 4+ billion other people).
I’ve played the thick with this and asked them what they meant. Ah inhabitant of Moscow? How is that relevant?
Just to get them to admit they were trying to use a slur.
Same with “Ruzzia”, they can’t help but feel stupid when they have to explain.