Svetlana Drugoveyko-Dolzhanskaya, a philologist who provided expert testimony supporting Sasha Skochilenko, a jailed artist who is currently under investigation for replacing supermarket price tags with anti-war statements, has been fired from her teaching position at St. Petersburg State University.
Drugoveyko-Dolzhanskaya now said that she had been fired for “committing an amoral act” and said she would challenge the decision in court despite not expecting a verdict in her favour.
She was in education, humanities at that, and her boss fired her just for doing her work, not showing her own opinion but implying other’s opinion doesn’t fall under maneating laws, as a private party not represented her org.
Imagine now what BS is taught there if the head of usually the most progressive department fires their employees for that. In the most hipsteric city. Where many people drove to bordering EU countries for holidays.
It’s like the last place you are to find a fucko, yet there they are. Little ratass was probably afraid it may-or-may-not put a spot on their career, and fired them just in case. And some were probably snitching on her to them.
If fucking philologists, teachers, journalists, translators have this human garbage as their head, it’s a fucking dead end. They shape kids, they shape information, they shape perception. And they are where the real indocrination starts.
I’m probably overreacting to that non-surprising turn, but it means one another safeguard is lost, and even if this country stops firing, it may have a couple of generations who are full-on happy about starting another war. If their teacher instil hatred, manage classes about how it’s ok to die because we end up in the heaven unlike these untermenschen (actual quote), show current media AIDS as a learning material, this can’t be undone. This can turn a country into a beast that would bite every neighbor and bring misery to civilians everywhere for decades.
Although too young, I feel like I failed at doing something at the right time. A little something that could save endless lives. Something, that could could unfuck this horror. And I did nothing before it’s too late.
Sorry for my deprrssed ramblings, but please don’t try emphatize with me. There are people who need it more. Those this jailed artist wanted us to care about.
Nah dude. You have far less power than you imagine and that’s ok. Keep being a compassionate human, including towards yourself.
Thank you for your kind words. I needed them. It’s a very conflicting situation to chat with you all here, out of our media bubble, see these attrocities and not to give up. I feel relieved even by talking about it without fearing for my safety. It’s too much to contain in one’s head.
The world has already enough evil and cynicism. Anyone who chooses compassion is a hero in my eyes. But don’t let empathy burn you.
If you don’t mind I’ll leave a reading recommendation here: Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
I will gladly take this suggestion.
To give something back, I’d recommend Berserk, the manga. My recent reread after it’s original author died gave me a deeper understanding of it: with all horror, brutality, orientation on depicting fights, the best times the main character had was when he found friendship and love, when he opposed the spirit of hatred that gave him his power on condition of eventually killing him. Such a simple concept, but it is put and drawn so well. It shows, how after a huge loss and PTSD person gets filled with hatred, and how it may regain it’s sanity with time and opening up to strangers.
Huge NSFW warnings though, I want you to consider checking first if it wouldn’t be too much for you, seriously. And - to assume the first chapters are the future of the MC, after the traumatic event, and bearing with him being an asshole due to hurting internally at every step.
It helped me a little bit. I hope you’d find something in it.