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And countless human rights and freedom activists completely absolutely silent. They chose to be silent about Iran, it feels like iranian blood is worth less tha
by michelsedgh 9mo ago
And countless human rights and freedom activists completely absolutely silent. They chose to be silent about Iran, it feels like iranian blood is worth less than other places apparently.
- stetrain 9mo agoAre you speaking out, protesting, or otherwise taking the actions that you are accusing others of abstaining from?
- marstall 9mo agowhat are you referring to? Amnesty International, to take one example, has a huge banner supporting Iran's protestors on their homepage rn https://www.amnesty.org/en/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/
- godzillabrennus 9mo ago[flagged]
- rplnt 9mo agoIt's as if there are two different actors and only one is an ally that can be held responsible by the government people are actually protesting "to".
- tinfoilhatter 9mo ago[flagged]
- mupuff1234 9mo agoIncoming reports are saying that they killed over 12,000 people in only a few days.
- tibbydudeza 9mo agoMinneapolis is closer to home and it hits different - Iran is some far of place.
- Y-bar 9mo agoYesterday: > A group of Iowa State University students gathered recently, standing in solidarity with the Iranian people and in opposition of the Middle Eastern government. https://eu.amestrib.com/story/news/local/2026/01/12/iowa-state-students-demonstrate-against-islamic-republic-in-iran/88140978007/ https://eu.amestrib.com/story/news/local/2026/01/12/iowa-sta...
- polytely 9mo agobut US universities aren't working together with Iranian universities, that is the difference
- conception 9mo agoWe’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
- volkk 9mo agoI think this gives further evidence that these huge campaigns and marches/protests/street graffiti are very deliberate manipulation by certain groups and a lot of money.
- reactordev 9mo agoPIGs on both sides. Private Interest Groups.
- mullingitover 9mo agoSo the current protests in Iran are driven by foreign intelligence services?
- volkk 9mo agothat wasn't my point at all
- toss1 9mo ago[flagged]
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- disgruntledphd2 9mo agoThat's what the Iranian regime claims.
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- RobertoG 9mo agoOn the other hand, there are a lot of people that is suddenly very worried about Iran but had nothing to say about other places. Some, even support the terrible things that are going on, today and for a very long time, in those other places.
- fenwick67 9mo agoIf you're an American, what could protesting Iran possibly accomplish? They are already sanctioned out the wazoo and our government already doesn't like the government there.
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- School-Cotton 9mo agoIsrael's treatment of Palestinians is completely different from Iran's treatment of Iranians, though I agree both are bad.
- stackskipton 9mo ago>The voices that are silent are the ones that are shouting from the rooftops when Israel does this to Palestinians. Depends on the protester and what they are protesting but many of Israel protests have been against US continuing to support/fund Israel and want US government to do something different. Iran on other hand is US sanctioned and US actively works against it, very different relationship then with Israel.
- zeroonetwothree 9mo agoI don’t doubt that many protesters do hold this view, but looking at the banners that some protesters have it’s clear that it’s not at all universal.
- visageunknown 9mo agoIts obviously not universal. No movement is a monolith. That's a silly expectation to have.
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- baxtr 9mo agoIt seems as if the the word genocide has no use if it’s your own people your mass killing.
- energy123 9mo agoWhat's happening in Iran is a politicide.
- cyberax 9mo agoWorse. We had an Iranian demonstration in Seattle, and "Free Palestine" protestors came there with megaphones to disrupt it.
- chasd00 9mo agoThat's funny in a morbidly ironic sort of way. what was their rational for countering the Iranian demonstrations? Free Palestine but subjugate Iran doesn't seem rational.
- cyberax 9mo agoIt becomes completely clear when you remember that HAMAS is a subsidiary of the current Iranian government.
- averysmallbird 9mo agoAs someone very vocal on Iran, I find these recriminations shallow and generally intended to be punitive about those positions in those others places. By the same precedent, it opens up Iranian human rights activists to the same endless accusations — when were you vocal on M23, Haiti, Kashmir, Kurds, Muslims in India, etc etc. I don't think it's countless silent organizations, and those organizations or activists are generally not in position to be able to influence the IRI or IRGC. I think you have distinguish between feckless organizations like the ITU, and say, college student campus activists.
- neoromantique 9mo ago>when were you vocal on M23, Haiti, Kashmir, Kurds, Muslims in India... That is the entire point, Gaza protests have been very vocal (and in many cases very misinformed). Human right abuses in Iran are but another example of this blindness.
- RobertoG 9mo agoMisinformed, sure. As it's not obvious what Israel is trying to do in Gaza. You ask for equal reaction, here it goes: I want for Israel the same sanctions that are applied to Iran and Russia. Fair, right?
- tehjoker 9mo agoIt's very obvious what they are trying to accomplish: ethnic cleansing. The idea is to make life so miserable to Palestinians that they will give up their national liberation struggle and venture into the punishing Sinai desert, allowing Israel and Trump to build a riviera and a gas pipeline on the sea. If they can't get them to leave, the partial genocide will escalate into a full blown mass murder campaign.
- mhb 9mo agoSurely the oxymoronic "partial genocide" should reveal how ridiculous it is to invoke this bit of propaganda.
- almosthere 9mo agoBecause that's not what they are - they are communists trying to mix the right ingredients for their next rage cycle.
- anon7000 9mo agoWell, for starters, one person really can’t care about every possible issue, even if they wanted to. So people and groups may get very passionate about one thing that really pulls on the heartstrings, hits close to home, or is more related to their own country’s policies. (For example, those protesting Palestine may protest US’s typically very strong support of Israel.) What am I going to do when I wake up to the news that yet another country under the control of religious fanatics is abusing their people? Demand the US invades them? Go to the streets every single day for every new issue (of which there are countless)? Demand sanctions against their government (already broadly exists)? Fly there myself? (Not sure if possible, and what help would that do?) Who is choosing to be silent about Iran? Lack of knowledge, maybe, but deliberate planning? That would be the fault of media and perhaps the wealthy controlling the media, if it’s happening. Not the everyday person. I guarantee you, next to no one wakes up and decides “hm, I will choose to not talk about X atrocity today.” You’re angry at the wrong people.
- andrepd 9mo agoWhich orgs are you talking about specifically? Don't sling mud in such a vague way. Here's Amnesty's homepage https://www.amnesty.org/en/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/. The UN has already issued statements. What do you mean exactly? Random nobodies on social media?
- michelsedgh 9mo agoAfter 10 days they put those banners up. After enormous pressure from people online and political from USA republicans. They were silent mostly. Also BBC, NYTimes, WPost, they only ran articles after 10 days of continuous killings in Iran were happening.
- tablets 9mo agoThat's just not true though https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj2llkjv8vo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj2llkjv8vo
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- andrepd 9mo agoWhat on earth... Both Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have reported on the escalation of repression in Iran. BBC, NYTimes, WPost, and well, virtually every major media outlet in the World has been reporting on Iran at least since the major escalations around 5-6 January. That's just such a bald-faced set of obvious lies that can be debunked with a 5-second google search... I struggle to see what your aim is in all this.
- imjonse 9mo agoHuman lives have the same value, but does Iran suppress the protesters with the tacit approval or active support of the West? If not who to protest against then? The Ayatollah?
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- fennecbutt 9mo agoWell same thing as gaza, idk why the west mostly supports Israel. Is it because they're more "like us" than gazans? I mean...how about we just not kill each other. Kept the drawn lines, make "settlers" illegal and be done with it. But nah we all tribal monkeys, our species is poisoned by evolution. So we'll never stop taking from each other, killing each other.
- wtcactus 9mo ago> I mean...how about we just not kill each other. Kept the drawn lines, make "settlers" illegal and be done with it. Israel did exactly that on 2015. Then, the Arabs (that’s what they actually are: Arabs from Egypt and Lebanon left behind by their own nations after they tried to destroy Israel in the very next day after the state was formed in 1948) went on to elect a government that specifically had as their campaign banner “the destruction of Israel” and kept sending dozens of rockets against Israel every day.
- epolanski 9mo agoSuch as?
- tim333 9mo agoI think a lot don't really know what to say beyond killing people is bad. I'm quite glad some people don't feel the need to noisy weigh in on situations they don't know much about.