DISINFO: In the US, white American citizens are demonised and are viewed as racists and fascists

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DISINFO: In the US, white American citizens are demonised and are viewed as racists and fascists

SUMMARY

In the US, white American citizens, who were the founders of the United States, are demonised and viewed as racists and fascists who must be suppressed. White Americans are seen as second-class citizens and “enemies of democracy”.

RESPONSE

The article combines recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the alleged victimisation of white people in American society and about racial war and state of collapse in the United States.

The narrative about the alleged persecution of white people in America was spread by several pro-Kremlin outlets in the context of the 2020 racial justice protests in the US. The narrative was again amplified by these outlets in the context of the 2020 US election.

There is no evidence to support the article's claim that white Americans are demonised and will be “suppressed” by the US government. The claim about the civil war, racial war or state collapse in the US also does not reflect reality. This claim has been a common pro-Kremlin narrative since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Read similar cases claiming that the “systemic racism” paradigm is deadly for America’s white people, which are disenfranchised and oppressed, that the Democratic Party is disintegrating the United States by attacking the white population and that in the US, pro-Trump whites are marked for political, economic, cultural if not physical extermination

Disclaimer

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