#western left

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

[eretzyisrael]

[philosopherking1887]

Western Leftists taking non-Western (non-white) peoples' most right-wing, theocratic, patriarchal ethnonationalist groups and re-labeling them as liberatory Leftist heroes is their very own stupid brand of Orientalism. If Hamas were white, they would be the KKK. But because they're brown, suddenly they're the fucking NAACP.

The principle that whether an action is good or evil depends not on the nature of the action, but on whether the "right" kind of person did it? That's a classic right-wing principle. You haven't made it any more morally sound by switching the identity of the "right" people from Us to Them.

[shinekocreator]

Had this woman (her IG bio said Rome and London) tell me that I should sympathise with the innocent Palestinians and be mad at the Israeli occupation. She commented on a post about the tearing down of kidnapped Israeli posters that we should also put up posters about the Palestinians. She really out here "all lives matter"ing and then has the audacity to tell me I should care about Palestinians more than my own people like she knows anything about me

[whentheynameyoujoy]

Western leftists: why don't Eastern Europeans like us and want to work with us? 😢 Must be because they're all nazis😡

Also western leftists: So the EE view of their own history is of course CIA propaganda for brainwashed children and our right-wingers are actually correct, them immigrants really do be taking the jobs.

[swamp-cats-den]

When the war is over, I want every leftist/liberal/anyone on the progressive side who refused to support Ukraine not to be forgotten. I want every instance of spreading fearmongering about the Ukrainian far-right while mocking those who warned the world about the invasion, of opposing arming Ukraine and equating it with arming the terrorists, of searching for each and every Ukraine's misstep, real or not, and scrutinizing it to no end while russia was committing genocide in Bucha and Mariupol to be recorded. And for those people to have no say in any circle that considers itself progressive. They have to be acknowledged as complicit in letting what's happened happen so that they can't simply go back to using yet another war as an intellectual exercise in getting the most woke points with no regard for the actual victims. Because, honestly, if there are no consequences for them, what's even the point, what kind of justice and equality can they still claim to be fighting for.

[zwischenstadt]

This article is about the other part of the Western Left. Those who imagined ‘NATO aggression in Ukraine’, and who could not see Russian aggression – like the New Orleans chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Or the DSA International Committee, which published a shameful statement failing to say a single critical word against Russia (I am very thankful to US professor and activist Dan la Botz and the others for their critique of this statement). Or those who criticised Ukraine for not implementing the Minsk Agreements and kept silent about their violations by Russia and the so-called ‘People’s Republics’. Or those who exaggerated the influence of the far-Right in Ukraine, but did not notice the far-Right in the ‘People’s Republics’ and avoided criticising Putin’s conservative, nationalist and authoritarian policy. Part of the responsibility for what is happening rests with you. I am not a fan of NATO. I know that after the end of the Cold War, the bloc lost its defensive function and led aggressive policies. I know that NATO’s eastward expansion undermined efforts directed at nuclear disarmament and forming a system of joint security. NATO tried to marginalise the role of the UN and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and to discredit them as ‘inefficient organisations’. But we cannot bring back the past, and we have to orient ourselves on the current circumstances when seeking a way out of this situation. How many times did the Western Left bring up the US’s informal promises to the former Russian president, Mikhail Gorbachev, about NATO (“not one inch eastward”), and how many times did it mention the 1994 Budapest Memorandum that guarantees Ukraine’s sovereignty? How often did the Western Left support the “legitimate security concerns” of Russia, a state that owns the world’s second-largest nuclear arsenal? And how often did it recall the security concerns of Ukraine, a state that had to trade its nuclear weapons, under the pressure of the US and Russia, for a piece of paper (the Budapest Memorandum) that Putin trampled conclusively in 2014? Did it ever occur to Leftist critics of NATO that Ukraine is the main victim of the changes brought about by the NATO expansion?

Taras Bilous, “ A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv “

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv/?fbclid=IwAR1Jp3HkAUXVK_OX3WhRR2Xi0WHSMbtnoiGhUAlmzmtbBNXmyf5txy4cJ-Q

[arabfanon]

The War on Terror is reconfiguring the practices that constitute whiteness through its definition of the West as endangered by the hatred and violence of its Islamist Other. Critical race and feminist theorists have long defined ‘whiteness’ as a form of subjectivity that is socially constructed, historically contextual, and inherently unstable. The equation of whiteness as a social identity with the socio-political category of the West has been seen as particularly problematic for its implication in colonial and imperialist projects. These theorists have also noted that the economic and political power of the West has enabled white subjects to exalt themselves even as they have sought to define the nature of the Other. This paper examines how three feminist texts engage with the hegemonic discourse of the War on Terror and its (re)constitution of whiteness. Sunera Thobani. 2007.