The thing that we have to make abundantly clear with the pressures to ostracize Russian nationals, particularly artists at the moment, who have moved West is that we're buying the tactic of every dictatorship in history.
It's one thing to blacklist people for what they said or what they believe - I'm against that, too - it goes to a special level of tyranny to believe that people should be held guilty by association.
The Soviet blacklists were deliberately there so they could rule by fear and make it dangerous just to talk to the wrong person.
The same applies to the to the Hollywood blacklists.
It's the same thing as attacking Asians over Covid.
Thank God nobody is throwing Russians into camps right now; but, it was precisely this attitude that lead to the Japanese concentration camps during WWII.
This is wrong at a lot of levels, not the least of which that we're stopping to the level of some of the worst people in history.
Anybody who is pressuring for the blacklisting of Russians or caving in to those demands is completely failing to ask him or herself the question, "What if this were to happen to me? What if I'm one day associated with a group that people are starting to hate?"
Finally, we're failing to realize something that I entirely believe about most immigrants - they're here because they weren't slavishly patriotic to the nation of their birth. The people who come here are usually the people who we want to be here. They're the people who believe in our values and chose to live here.
Still, no matter what, we do finally need to acknowledge the evil of collectivism that we'll never be able to shake.