I just can't keep my arms folded here... I want to but I can't... Maybe it's a crisis of political conscience or maybe I'm having a political nervous breakdown, but this is my red line. The Jewish people were not butchered in dictatorship after war just to stay silent when it's 99% likely to happen, even to people who hate us. Nobody needs to care what I think and probably shouldn't, but if solidarity means anything at all, then what you're justifying right now in the name of anti-colonialism will be remembered forever as an abomination.
Crimea 1918-22. Khronstadt 1921. Holomodor 1932-33. Moscow and Siberia 1936-38 and again in '48 and '52. Beijing 1948, and again in '58-'62. Budapest, 1956. Prague, 1968. Beirut 1975-90. Tehran, 1979. Kurdistan, 1991. Aleppo 2011 and Damascus 2008-????, Pyongyang 1949-god alone knows and so many dozens of times in Africa that it would be impossible to list. And you just blamed it all on Western imperialism in a single sentence and never thought about it again. How many millions of innocents died for your dogmas? How many thousands were forced into heroism and died a senseless martyr's death that to this day, you've never recognized?
Human rights has never been the Left's concern. Just like right-wing Christians (which is how so many of them were raised...), the only real concern was the way of life they wish to impose on an unwilling world - the very sort of imperialism it claims to squelch, and the vanity which comes from believing they've solved the question of human ethics.
Yes, it's true, modern liberalism has sometimes wished to impose democracy on unwilling peoples - but those projects are the exception, and for better or worse, there will always be inevitable clashes of imposition between people who see the world differently. But in progressivism, socialism, intersectionality, imposition of their worldview on the rest of humanity is the whole point, and what they want is a much more demanding system than mere democracy. And to their astonishment, it causes a billion dangerously immature and entitled conservatives to retrench into their outmoded value systems and grow ever more dangerous. The left dream of human projects that are literally impossible and causes the very escalation of reactionary tyranny they mean to overthrow. The end result of this eternal escalation may in a few decades may be a civil war at the very moment when the world is literally burning and we have to rescue billions, but no American liberal 'calls them out' for what they are.
If there is not a third way between ersatz conservatism and ersatz progressivism, at least 20% of the planet is doomed.
Kabul, 2021.
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