Liberals have to reduce everything down to a clean black and white metaphor because actually reckoning with the plain, bare reality of what they support would lay bare the monstrousness of their utterly incurious, self-serving imperial ideology. Much easier to exist in the hazy cloud lands of equivalence and metaphor, where nazi-occupied Ukraine becomes an assaulted woman and support for Palestinian genocide becomes a trolley problem.
Liberals have to reduce everything down to a clean black and white metaphor because actually reckoning with the plain, bare reality of what they support would lay bare the monstrousness of their utterly incurious, self-serving imperial ideology. Much easier to exist in the hazy cloud lands of equivalence and metaphor, where nazi-occupied Ukraine becomes an assaulted woman and support for Palestinian genocide becomes a trolley problem.
Lovely. Now what about the facts?
The facts:
Russia started the war.
Wrong and also that’s your response to supporting nazis? “But the other guy started it”? Okay, you still support nazis. That makes you a nazi.
Eight years of Ukro shelling and fourteen thousand dead civillians “started it”, my guy.
Are you running a marathon with those goalposts?
The US overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed a puppet regime specifically to threaten Russia