
Also like… Iran? This is really the government to defend now? The theocracy? Isn’t like one of the main priorities in America right now being against the rise of authoritarian theocracy? A government can be propagandized and still bad. Saddam committed fuckin genocide. The Iraq war being bad didn’t make him good.
Even that claim originated from the Falun Gong and not once has that ever been associated with the Uyghurs, who btw are not oppressed. They get to live in their own land, speak their own language, eat their own food, dress in their own clothes, and practice their own religion. I dare you to look up a YouTuber who visited Xinjiang right now and watch the video without claiming they got paid by the “CCP”
Theocracies are bad actually. Also you do know that propaganda doesn’t have to be false right? Something being used as propaganda doesn’t automatically mean it’s not real. The Soviet Union used American segregation as propaganda all the time. Segregation still existed. The British in world war 2 made plenty of anti-Nazi propaganda. The torture talked about in “Germany No. 2 (1939) Papers Concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany” was still real
All propaganda has to do is serve the interests of the government. That can easily be done by publishing real things. You can’t dismiss it all as fake because “you hear about it from U.S. government sources.” If there’s actual evidence backing it up, it doesn’t matter how you heard about it. I must also note, there are numerous international bodies that assess human rights abuses, and they apply it for US allies like Israel too, just as they do about Iran.
I know you’re not gonna change your mind because “everything that disagrees with you is propaganda” but I do want to point out how fascinatingly similar the “the protests weren’t completely peaceful” line to justify protesters being killed is to what I’ve seen Zionists use to justify the killings at the 2018 Gaza protests and what conservatives say about any protests in America.
I don’t think anyone should have to had died but then again, there shouldn’t have had to have been protests, considering they were directly caused by economic hardship (a direct result of US sanctions). If there were no sanctions, there would be less protests and less ways for the Mossad or other foreign intelligence to incite violence so no one would die or get hurt.
I just don’t understand how one can view politics with such a lack of nuance. You don’t have to glorify governments as universally good or universally bad. Throughout most of human history, all the governments have sucked to varying degrees. It’s not like the Nazis being genocidal fascists meant the British weren’t colonialists with their own fair share of genocides. There’s no need to try to apologize for Iran or Russia or China or North Korea.
I never said Iran or Russia are universally good but they are the lesser evil compared to the United States. I critically support them against US or western aggression in general, and that includes covert actions. If we’re talking about China, DPR Korea, or Cuba, I 100% support them.
You say you don’t see them as universally good, but you will go out of your way to defend them against any accused human rights abuse. I view the British as a lesser evil compared to Nazi germany. I still wouldn’t be trying to minimize or justify their colonial massacres. And you should support any government 100%. That’s a deadly lack of nuance. That viewpoint is how any atrocity can be justified so long as it’s your favorite team committing it. Every government in the world is flawed.