Iran and the western left?

Meanwhile Iran is hanging people from cranes in the public square and beat women to death for not covering their hair properly.

Hmm, I can see exactly why Jeremy Corbyn feels no need to censure them.

You might find this article on the hypocrisy interesting

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/cfd8b674df67b834

The omnicause deems America, Israel and the capitalist world as the epitome of Westernness, the fount of all evil, guilty of every “ism” and “cide”, and thus promotes and supports third worldist regimes and causes that undermine our societies. It is nihilistic and shape-changing, embracing any doctrine that advances its ends, regardless of contradictions.

This is why so few Western activists support Iran’s freedom-fighters. These dissidents are pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-democracy. They curse Hamas and Hezbollah,and demand the end to Tehran’s handouts to its proxies, anathema to our useful idiots.

@rickyrickygrimes

I mean exactly that; the two are not really comparable.

If the Iranians were suppressing particular ethnic groups within their country, starving them and bombing them back to the Stone Age then the situation would be comparable.

So far as I can see the situation in Iran is more one of a popular uprising similar to the one that unseated the Shah in 1979.

@rickyrickygrimes

You're comparing Bananas with Elephants as if they were the same thing.

That's certainly how it seems to me.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

Unfortunately, despite being Westerners themselves, they see the West as the enemy. And their feelings for Hamas and Iran's regime follow from that. (Pretty sure those feelings are one way, but they'll never need to put that to the test, safe in their western democracies...)

The interesting question is how and when such self-abnegation became so entrenched. And by whom, and to what end.