Mary Sanchez: Blanket boycotts of Russians and other ill-thought replies to Ukrainian genocide
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Apr 22, 2022
3 minutes
Solidarity, in the age of social media, is a simple thing. Until it needs to be real and impactful.
In recent weeks, many people have empathetically posted an image of the Ukrainian flag on their social media or plopped an image of a sunflower atop their scroll (guilty).
Cut and paste. Click, click and a module of support for people being slaughtered half a world away is complete. Except that none of these responses alleviates anyone’s suffering. The action is mostly an
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