Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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Received a lot of DMs asking for examples of things I've been told by abusive people.
Here is a good example. Not a single time do I raise my voice or lose composure in any way.
After this incident, my team and I were harassed online by a whole group of people for weeks.
1/ Expectations for a Ukrainian: Apologise to russians.
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This conversation happened in Twitter Spaces a couple days ago in front of 400 people. Sharing so it's easier to understand what I have to deal with every other day.
#GenocideOfUkrainians
https://t.co/MqyvVvvUc4
📚 I keep a (still very incomplete) list of things that I've been called lately
Most of the abusive people/accounts claim to support Ukraine.
❓If what happens on social media "doesn't matter", why is 🇷🇺 pumping so much money and effort into it?
1/ Incomplete list of things I've been recently called by Ukraine's "supporters"🇺🇦
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✅ crypto bro
✅ disaster capitalist profiting off other people's misfortune
✅ playing victim
✅ ignorant fucking goblin
✅ slut
✅ idiot (∞)
✅ morally bankrupt
✅ need to apologize
...
In this 🧵 - a bit of my personal history in relation to 🇺🇦
I didn't come out of nowhere after finding Ukraine on the map 4 months ago - my life is completely, to its core, consumed by this war. I do my work in pubic with my name and face out there
✨The biggest struggle for me has been people not hearing what I say
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✨For a number of reasons (arrogance, ignorance, I'm a girl) they make a false assumption that I'm as stupid as them and so present no danger
To illustrate - my post from 25 Jan, weeks before the invasion https://t.co/3a2mWCeYBm
❌ Asking a Ukrainian to ignore abuse - appeasement politics on the mini scale
❓If your friend tells you that some abusive idiot keeps following her everywhere trying to beat her up, do you tell her to ignore it or to call the police?
57/ @Louide 💞 I'll never back down to bullies as a Ukrainian - unlike russians, we actually practice what we preach 😂
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I also got this message from a friend recently so it's also for him. I know he's watching ❤️ https://t.co/X7K1GJl7oe https://t.co/iZAk5GEywc
Both people hosting spaces and listeners may find this🧵 helpful - written after someone told me I can't be upset about being abused by an autistic host.
I have a disability much more devastating. My view - that guy shouldn't be a host for UA spaces
1/ 🧠 Why you should NOT host Twitter Spaces involving Ukrainians if your ability to empathise with them & maintain composure is impaired - 🧵
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cc: @MindfulWebz
https://t.co/xoZ5pq0bj2
If you want to find out what it's like to be a Ukrainian person (or at least myself) - 🧵 here:
1/ Ukrainians don't complain much but I hope they don't mind me saying this: I speak 4 languages and none of them has words that can describe how much it hurts to be one of us these days.
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Each of us has been in agony from 1000s propaganda cuts. Literally, lie on a lie on a lie.
Here's a 🧵 debunking an article that depicts me as a crypto scammer, disaster capitalist etc - its author has blocked me because he knows I'll take him to court when I have time for that kind of stuff after Ukraine's victory.
1/ Today I've been sent an article that mentions #Ukraine, @Ukraine_DAO and myself.
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I'd like to publicly address its author @PeterJHowson - a senior lecturer at @NorthumbriaUni. I recommend him to retract the article and publish an apology to @Ukraine🧵🇺🇦
https://t.co/EkAdpteZ05
Here's continuation of the 🧵 (it breaks down because I deleted tweet 6 which doesn't reflect my views on Pussy Riot anymore).
❗️My current views about 🇷🇺 "anti-war feminists" who turned #GenocideOfUkrainians in a Pussyverse ad - here: twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s…
7/ No particular comments here, can only thank @OnlyFans. 👏 https://t.co/0CQNgZCdt8
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BTW, Pussy Riot now deleted the tweets with their false accusations of me mismanaging funds of @Ukraine_DAO after the community spoke up overwhelmingly in my favour.
Thanks to blockchain it's easily verifiable that they lied, so I'm actually waiting for public apologies.
66/ ❗️I explain to people every day that russians should be held accountable for their actions.
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❗️I also try to practice what I preach.
💞 I'm very proud that I didn't give in to the pressure and thanks to the community's effort, the russian "feminist" warship fucked off 💞 https://t.co/uMzZEvYvi9
For those who say me I shouldn't focus on the negative - I actually have a 🧵 with the loving messages people send to me.
It's much longer than the negative ones - and much more incomplete ❤️ Grateful for all the support, sending love to everyone (excepts russians 😈)
1/ Starting 🧵 for the kind messages I get every day. I believe they're addressed to all Ukrainian people - my struggles are nothing compared to what Ukrainians on the ground in the warzone have been through. I hope all this warm energy cheers them up too ❤️
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#ArmUkraineNow 🇺🇦 https://t.co/Y5y553r0qD
Forgot to add the tweet about me being in the UK
I'm going to be wherever I want to be and so is every other Ukrainian person.
To be accusing a Ukrainian of not being under airstrikes, you have to be sick in your head.
14/ ✨A 🇺🇦 person can live wherever the hell they want and don’t need to explain themselves for it to anyone
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❗️Ukrainians abroad often experience extreme grief and deserve empathy.
@osint88 has shown none of it, trying to guilttrip and belittle me
FYI my whole family is there https://t.co/ueMcVbLpPC
Now let's not make it all about me:
⚡️Your daily reminder to #SaveAzov - here's how you can support @Polk_Azov #ꑭ
1/ A few things you can do to #StandWithUkraine today:
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⚡️Educate yourself on what Azov Regiment is.
⚡️Raise awareness of people around you and any journalists/thought leaders you know, a lot of helpful info for that is here: https://t.co/HswZToRkFd
@Polk_Azov #ꑭ #SaveAzov https://t.co/pjXKoTGIMT https://t.co/2uS6u83DmE
Some people found me on twitter just a few days ago but I've been doing all of this for many years: twitter.com/cryptodrftng/s…
All 🇺🇦 comms specialists I spoke to approve of my work so dw about me "harming 🇺🇦"- its russians who harm it
A message from "claimed founder of Ukraine DAO that only exists on Twitter"
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Recorded in a language that this "supporter of 🇺🇦" doesn't understand because he only found 🇺🇦 on the map a few months ago, but TLDR:
if I'm a russian agent, other russian agents should be like me😂❤️ https://t.co/MnOeESZBYA https://t.co/tw0GTFWfAz