it certainly focuses more on acknowledging the imperial aggression than the domestic repression.
It genuinely does not do that… by my count every single paragraph talks about the domestic repression, only like half of one talks about the current imperial aggression against Iran. It then talks about US and Israeli colonial violence but only in the explicit frame of equating it to the internal repression of the islamic republic.
The US and Israel are not the same as Iran.
Saying “we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism” in the current moment is nothing short of CIA shit IMO
The whole point is to discredit anti-imperialism as a movement by forcing otherwise empathetic people to prioritize their progressivism over their anti-imperialism.
This would be like raising concerns that plenty of queers work for Lockheed Martin whenever the topic of queer rights became particularly pertinent. Let’s just throw all gays under the bus because plenty of them are racist shitbags.
This type of propaganda is one of the most insidious because it presents two marginalized groups as inherently juxtaposed, when in reality they are both engaged in similar liberation struggles involving serious contradictions imposed upon them by the world around them.
It genuinely does not do that… by my count every single paragraph talks about the domestic repression, only like half of one talks about the current imperial aggression against Iran. It then talks about US and Israeli colonial violence but only in the explicit frame of equating it to the internal repression of the islamic republic.
The US and Israel are not the same as Iran.
Saying “we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism” in the current moment is nothing short of CIA shit IMO
This part in particular bothered me:
Purports what? Who out there is standing firmer against imperialist and zionist forces than Iran and its allies? Fucking clowns…
The whole point is to discredit anti-imperialism as a movement by forcing otherwise empathetic people to prioritize their progressivism over their anti-imperialism.
This would be like raising concerns that plenty of queers work for Lockheed Martin whenever the topic of queer rights became particularly pertinent. Let’s just throw all gays under the bus because plenty of them are racist shitbags.
This type of propaganda is one of the most insidious because it presents two marginalized groups as inherently juxtaposed, when in reality they are both engaged in similar liberation struggles involving serious contradictions imposed upon them by the world around them.
Very much agree, thank you for saying it.
https://hexbear.net/comment/7408098
Good comment on this from the news mega a couple days ago, in addition to the Caitlin Johnstone article mentioned elsewhere in this thread
Hmm I guess my read of it wasn’t particularly thorough, I probably shouldn’t have commented without giving it a critical eye.