Great post, and the best point is highlighted in bold.
> Yes, the issues the blog mentioned were real human rights issues, but selective coverage of human rights is propaganda.
Russia’s primary internal justification for war is based around a human rights argument regarding the ethnic Russians in the East.
Similarly, many US interventions around the world.
I guess people here will say our concerns are totally valid and theirs are fake. Western governments don’t lie.
When your scope of concern maps 1:1 to that of the State Department, though, it’s a fair question to ask what’s your motivation for amplifying these messages.
Yes, what’s happening in Iran is bad - what do you want done about it exactly? Because certain people in the US government have ideas about that which may not exactly improve the situation.
> Yes, the issues the blog mentioned were real human rights issues, but selective coverage of human rights is propaganda.
Russia’s primary internal justification for war is based around a human rights argument regarding the ethnic Russians in the East.
Similarly, many US interventions around the world.
I guess people here will say our concerns are totally valid and theirs are fake. Western governments don’t lie.
When your scope of concern maps 1:1 to that of the State Department, though, it’s a fair question to ask what’s your motivation for amplifying these messages.
Yes, what’s happening in Iran is bad - what do you want done about it exactly? Because certain people in the US government have ideas about that which may not exactly improve the situation.