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watwuttoday at 9:35 AM1 replyview on HN

There is a difference between someone running from persecution and someone leaving because they might be conscripted into invasion they agree with or because they dont like the economy. Equating Russians with Jews is particularly ugly here. You could sorta a little equate Ukrainians, a little.

And yes, actual historical events and motivations of past actors matter.

Yes, there were multiple fully on-the-nazi side countries, Swiss were not them. That does not make the comparison you made meaningful.


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embedding-shapetoday at 9:42 AM

> That does not make the comparison you made meaningful.

Yeah, even when I tried my best to, apparently the labels just fire up too much emotions. I've removed the country names completely as it's irrelevant to what I was trying to discuss.

> Equating Russians with Jews is particularly ugly here

I didn't do anything of the like in the original text, but good try!

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