There’s a lot of unjust persecutions around the world, yet i could also talk about the land of the free, who persecute not one, but two candidates, Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for having a different opinion of the world, and quite possibly a third if they rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, and also more generally having only two political parties who can be helped by the wealthy, and even voting machines.
I’m from France and it’s worse, the u.s. may only have two political parties, but here we need to get votes from mayors to be able to present ourselves, of course this number has gone up and is now public. It’s another way to prevent changes.
Even if they had the authorization they would still not be known by depoliticized citizens.
I’m harsh but we’re indeed no stranger to authoritarian measures such as dissolving pacific organizations for their point of view(, only one example), or demonizing popular speakers such as Étienne Chouard(, pro-democracy activist), and many many more, whose opinions can only be heard thanks to the relatively recent Internet, but they’re making laws to protect “us”(themselves) from what they call disinformation, hate speech, or genocide denial(, how easy it would be to censor any debunking of their recent uyghur lies under the guise of genocide denial, it was the same argument for Yugoslavia, the Darfur, and certainly more). We’re just living in a bubble, with our own personal lives, yet voting.
In both countries, we’re not aware of what, e.g., a communist news program could look like, we deem the only kind of information we know as objective, and even diverse because there’s a center-left and a center-right(, revolutions are extreme hence the status quo is conserved). Multisubjectivity is closer to the true objectivity.
The few of us who read foreign medias would mean german ones, or eventually italian or swedish, sometimes outside the west as long as it’s aligned with “the”(our) “universal” truth.
When a different view of the world from outside irrupts in our bubble, they’re simply wrong, as a proof, everybody we know disagree with them, but since we don’t read their medias, we’re unable to ever explain why this other side could think that they are the good guys(, we’ll only say that they’re propagandised, which isn’t the same as being able to give any details about the content of this propaganda ; yet i’m not sure that their(, russians, chinese, cubans, venezuelans, iranians, …,) citizens would be unable to briefly describe our propaganda, i.d.k.)
Of course, nothing is perfect, including bourgeois republics(, in democracies the power belong to the cratos, not to representatives who establish themselves the rules of their representation), and i guess i just wanted to criticise political/‘non-economic’ imperfections inside the west instead of western influence outside our borders for once.
/endrant, sry for the length.
Can’t blame you, and yeah, i just felt that i was describing, in my comments these last years, an all-powerful West reigning over a world mostly constituted of “illiberal” poor countries(, if i’m stereotyping my speech), and wanted to talk somewhere about how we’re also the subject of criticisms of “illiberalism”, that our propaganda influences the perception of our everyday life, inside our borders, not only external countries(, mostly demonized enemies, but also under-criticised allies(, Israel or the release of radioactive water from Fukushima come to mind as examples, the kind of informations which would be put forward if these countries were on the “other side”)).
Since even in this reply i’m talking about the imperfections of foreign countries i wanted to point out somewhere, for once, our own political “illiberalism”, and perhaps read some “hot takes” regarding capitalist “democratic” republics.
I’m thanking you for the links, they’re good examples.
We invaded Libya to protect protesters, that’s so stupid, and we didn’t care when it was sanctioned before ; and we don’t care as well, or outrightly ignore, the current countries under our sanctions, what a world.