"A lot of truth in this. But there is a real problem with the tendency to see all this in terms of ‘turning away from western values’-as if fascism wasn’t a western value-as if justice was the sole possession of the west-as if movements for democracy were all about a desire to be western. In so many ways this whole discourse is part of the problem-people who have never expanded their universalism beyond a constricted eurocentric post-war vision. I do think we’re confronted by discursively similar discourses in this respect-both flowing out of an amazing theoretical laziness and ennui."
— John Gamey
Indeed, is Germany's complicity with Isreal in crimes a Western value or not? The decades long of Western states support of dictatorships in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere a Western value or not? Is the state of Europe today, including the consequences of neolibral capitalism, the rise of the far-right, corruption, relentless privatisation, curtailing unions and attacks on labour rights, Brexit, Trump, drones, deportaion, indifference to refugees, commodification of our bodies and private data, etc, etc , Western values or not? Is the hypocrisy of the Western states, especially the US, in overthrowing Saddam Hussein but not Bashar Al-assad, for its own geopolitical interests a Western value or not? Is the epedemic of identity politics propagated by the liberals and neoliberals to deflect people from fundamentsl issues thus contributing to the rise of Islamophobia, xenophobia and neo-fascism a Western value or not?
The left-wing/right-wing alliance of Al-assad apologists
— John Gamey
Indeed, is Germany's complicity with Isreal in crimes a Western value or not? The decades long of Western states support of dictatorships in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere a Western value or not? Is the state of Europe today, including the consequences of neolibral capitalism, the rise of the far-right, corruption, relentless privatisation, curtailing unions and attacks on labour rights, Brexit, Trump, drones, deportaion, indifference to refugees, commodification of our bodies and private data, etc, etc , Western values or not? Is the hypocrisy of the Western states, especially the US, in overthrowing Saddam Hussein but not Bashar Al-assad, for its own geopolitical interests a Western value or not? Is the epedemic of identity politics propagated by the liberals and neoliberals to deflect people from fundamentsl issues thus contributing to the rise of Islamophobia, xenophobia and neo-fascism a Western value or not?
The left-wing/right-wing alliance of Al-assad apologists
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