Right-wing figures across the U.S. and Europe are now exploiting Zarutska and other Ukrainian refugees’ tragic stories not to promote wartime aid for Ukraine but to stoke fear and push racist, xenophobic policies at home.
"In the U.S. media, the murder of young, attractive, white women often generates mass coverage,” Michael Socolow, a professor specializing in the study of media at the University of Maine, told the Kyiv Independent.
“In this case, though, the right-wing media is seizing on the story, and amplifying it, because it exacerbates racial tensions while seemingly offering a justification for (U.S.) President Donald Trump's plan to deploy the National Guard in American cities."
> Right-wing figures across the U.S. and Europe are now exploiting Zarutska and other Ukrainian refugees’ tragic stories not to promote wartime aid for Ukraine but to stoke fear and push racist, xenophobic policies at home.
> "In the U.S. media, the murder of young, attractive, white women often generates mass coverage,” Michael Socolow, a professor specializing in the study of media at the University of Maine, told the Kyiv Independent.
> “In this case, though, the right-wing media is seizing on the story, and amplifying it, because it exacerbates racial tensions while seemingly offering a justification for (U.S.) President Donald Trump's plan to deploy the National Guard in American cities."
> [Source](https://kyivindependent.com/how-the-right-wing-in-us-europe-is-weaponizing-murders-of-ukrainian-refugees)
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