Edit: I updated the title per suggestions.
Edit: I apologize for snapping at people in the comments. I was arguing with someone earlier today and bad habits make preventable mistakes. I’ll do better.
I deliberately didn’t talk about the current events going on in Iran with the justification that a) I’m not from there b) I don’t know enough. But this article takes some concepts I thought I knew and spits them back at me.
I kept quiet about Israel for a long time because I was afraid of being called a bigot, and I will regret that until I die. So why am I suddenly willing to do this again when it comes to Iran? Because some of their interests align with mine? Because I’m afraid of pissing off reactionaries even within leftist spaces and then losing access to them?
What sort of Anarchist, leftist, or being capable of empathy would I be if I remain silent when I know something is wrong.
Actually I did, yapping for twelve paragraphs about hijabs and orientalism while failing to grasp even the basic outline of the class divides of Iranian society, it’s bad, it’s written for white liberals in mind which is why the author doesn’t even use the word class once in the article
I mean this sentence alone seals the deal, if the author wants to pretend or is ignorant of the leading role Mossad and western intelligence agencies play in co-opting and subverting opposition in Iran, then the article is a profound failure of analysis and frankly childish in its politics
You forgot a class.
You forgot to address anything I said in this thread
Why should I bother engaging with someone who is acting in bad faith?
Yesterday you argued there was no such thing as the compatible left because the “CIA lies” and you want to talk about bad faith?
Like do you think you’re clever or something?