donsurber.blogspot.com 2/26/2022
As thousands of Ukrainians flee to neighboring lands to escape the Russian invasion, news agencies around the globe are showing sympathy for the refugees who flee their homes.
Then there is the New York Times. The Gray Bag Lady stood ready and willing to cast shade on neighboring countries taking in people fleeing a war.
In a story by Lara James, NYT said, "Countries that have for years resisted taking in refugees from wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are now opening their doors to Ukrainians as Russian forces carry out a nationwide military assault. Perhaps 100,000 Ukrainians already have left their homes, according to United Nations estimates, and at least half of them have crowded onto trains, jammed highways or walked to get across their country’s borders in what officials warn could become the world’s next refugee crisis."
That Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are thousands of miles from Poland while Poland shares a border with Ukraine does not stop NYT from attacking the Poles for accepting Ukrainians escaping the bombing.
NYT quoted Serena Parekh, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, who said, "It’s hard not to see that Ukrainians are white, mostly Christian and Europeans. And so in a sense, the xenophobia that’s really arisen in the last 10 years, particularly after 2015, is not at play in this crisis in the way that it has been for refugees coming from the Middle East and from Africa."
This is not the only NYT story labeling as racist white, mostly Christian Europeans taking in white, mostly Christian Europeans.
More:
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/02/nyt-taking-ukraine-refugees-is-racist.html
