Ah whataboutism, there's no hypocrisy or double standard that it cannot justify. Weren't you taught that whataboutism cannot apply when creating laws? And is actually called discrimination in law. But i must agree it's a convenient tool to prevent population from questioning any and all laws.
When one country invades and the other says "we don't want your books anymore" it's absurd to claim "discrimination". Come on, master of whataboutism, find us some historic analogy. Like Russian imports of German books during WWII.
If your logic leads you to the following conclusion, think it's safe to say that you're on the wrong side of the argument:
Masha and the Bear = brainwashing children, needs to be censored, require exceptions to import
Mein kampf = totally fine for unlimited circulation without age restriction
Masha and the Bear = brainwashing children, needs to be censored, require exceptions to import
Mein kampf = totally fine for unlimited circulation without age restriction
That's your conclusion, not sure why you're ascribing that to me. I'm sure there are many bad books issued in countries that Ukraine has good relationships with. I never argued otherwise. It's a tangent that doesn't mean anything in the context of restricting book imports from a country they're at war with.
You seem to be confusing censoring 60% of all of the books on UA market based only on the language they're written in and censoring eight specific books.
Why are you so stupid? Oh wait, let me clarify: From your link, it's obvious that Ukraine banned russian books import, not books itself. So you can translate any russian author into ukrainian and sell it without any problems.
In difference, books that banned in russia, banned entirely. It doesn't matter on which language you will try to read it.
I hope at least you get paid for your bs
Funny how these two counter arguments are covering the full spectrum. From we're not fighting the language only it's content which is propaganda that brainwashes children (suchmoon), to we're totally fighting the language and not the content, content of any Russian book is allowed if it's translated into Ukrainian (johhnyUA)
Following that logic, should UA ban RU language sites on the internet? If RU music/radio/books are censored why allow RU sites? Why censor one media of information but not the other?
Point being is if you're waging a war with a language you've already lost.