Yet, the prejudice is not simply towards the Russian state, and is directed by many people towards anyone suspected of being Russian, or who doesn't post or support anti-Russia comments. Claims of somebody being Russian (though, I expect that 98%+ of those accused of being Russian in comments sections are not Russian at all) are used as a tool to discount what the person has to say, and to attack them. So, it truly is real racism, because it is disregarding and discrimination precisely on the premise of race.

A lot of people just try to rationalize their racism to justify themselves to be able to say the discriminatory things they want to. But that doesn't change that attacking somebody and suggesting that their views are invalid on the premise of their race being Russian is racism, and is no different than a Nazi doing the same to somebody who is Jewish because they are Jewish, or a KKK calling a black person's views not of equal value.