Allan Milne Lees
1 min readNov 22, 2023

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It is usually an error to waste one's time on things that have no relevance to the real world. We should, therefore, ask ourselves: what difference to Russian aggression would be made by a few self-indulgent people "cancelling" Russian culture? In other words, as Russian culture remains regardless of what self-indulgent people choose to do, and as Putin will continue to fund war crimes in Ukraine until all Russian forces are exterminated by real-world means, silly babble about "cancelling" Russian culture is not merely irrelevant - it's profoundly stupid. Anyone who cares about Ukraine should be sending money, pressuring politicians to find a spine and stop dithering over involving NATO directly, or going to help in practical ways in Ukraine itself. Silly childish nonsense about "cancelling" is not merely a total waste of time but deeply insulting to people suffering real-world harms at the hands of the Russian barbarians and criminals.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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