:burning cop car emote:
Idk kinda looks like a george floyd moment in Iran
:shrug-outta-hecks:
Westoids often initially fall into moralizing anti-Iran and pro-imperialist narratives, sometimes due to repeating the narratives of ex-Iranians with a grudge and agenda.
Like why are people in this thread repeating as fact that she was beaten to death by Iranian police when there is no evidence of that, and evidence actually seems to show the opposite? Why are they so quick to assume a position of idealistic “I’m morally superior to the savage” and involve themselves in an imperialist intrigue and the affairs of others without even evidence of wrongdoing?
I mean where I’m at on it is this is that was what people around me were talking about. I see that she collapsed, im interested in knowing if she was brutalized during the arrest, which to my knowledge hasn’t been released. At best, regardless of the situation between the west and Iran, there is observably a good amount of police brutality involved in this situation, and before which is not good.
Any leftists support of Iran should be pretty critical. It’s not right for them to be imperialised and I think they should sort out their own issues, but they’re not a socialist country they’re a theocracy with tons of issues.
I would say to stick to criticizing what you know, because as soon as you try to do “socialist” criticism of the enemies of your state it’s all just narrative manufacturing of consent, it’s just trot shit. You don’t have any power over Iranian politics, the only way a westerner could possibly affect the situation is to throw in with the imperialist bloodthirsty mob and push to breach their sovereignty. It becomes clear when people try to do “critical support” but their critiques are not based in knowledge of the culture and contexts, and you get things like this… western leftists attacking Iran over a made up event of police brutality that they have no business being involved in, right as Iran is mobilizing to assist Armenia and defend against the western-backed Azeris.
