This has been, in short, one of the largest, bravest protest movements in modern history and one of the worst massacres of civilians by their own government.
The double standard you highlight is brutal but unfortunately accurate. The intersectional framework you describe basically treats non-Western regimes as perpetual victims who can never be true aggressors, which leaves actual victims like Iranian protestors invisible. I saw somethign similar during the Uyghur genocide discussions where folks bent over backwards to avoid condemning China. When ideology predefines who can be oppressor vs oppressed, evidence becomes irrelevant and 30,000 dead becomes background noise.
Too true. And very conspicuous is especially South Africa's pathetic reaction, given that they went out all guns blazing against Israel, which dared to defend itself after being brutally attacked by Hamas. I think one should, however, give some credit to Trump for attempting to assist (and Israel, of course), and who can still intervene militarilly if it will not make the situation worse instead of better. Europe also woke up fortunately, and at least classified the Iranian regime now as a terrorist state. But, hell, that took a long time and it cost the blood of thousands before developing some European backbone in calling out the long-existing Iranian evil...
The double standard you highlight is brutal but unfortunately accurate. The intersectional framework you describe basically treats non-Western regimes as perpetual victims who can never be true aggressors, which leaves actual victims like Iranian protestors invisible. I saw somethign similar during the Uyghur genocide discussions where folks bent over backwards to avoid condemning China. When ideology predefines who can be oppressor vs oppressed, evidence becomes irrelevant and 30,000 dead becomes background noise.
I fully agree and unless you are white or Jewish you can slaughter people in their masses. This is a true crime against humanity and a genocide.
Too true. And very conspicuous is especially South Africa's pathetic reaction, given that they went out all guns blazing against Israel, which dared to defend itself after being brutally attacked by Hamas. I think one should, however, give some credit to Trump for attempting to assist (and Israel, of course), and who can still intervene militarilly if it will not make the situation worse instead of better. Europe also woke up fortunately, and at least classified the Iranian regime now as a terrorist state. But, hell, that took a long time and it cost the blood of thousands before developing some European backbone in calling out the long-existing Iranian evil...