Global sympathy for Ukraine was driven primarily by race, not realpolitik

Evidence

Killing a Ukrainian, the very horror of it, opposed the swelling tide of support rushing to that country’s side. This support was, in part, the play of realpolitik, but a greater part of it reflected race and racism, and most poignantly, the entwined fervor and force of the two. An integration whereby whiteness, in the way that only whiteness can, drives the political urgency and discursive solidarity delivered to Ukraine and its soldiers and refugees, politicians and president. Whiteness is the heroism and victimhood, innocence and freedom that saturated television and handheld screens following the invasion of Ukraine. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1182

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-panic and selective-victimhood literature, and to the reader’s global Islamophobia synthesis with Iftikhar. — connects to: Oligarch-owned broadcasters decided Ukraine coverage by owner self-interest — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 486