Falling for CIA propaganda in 2026 is a skill issue 😬

https://lemmy.zip/post/60508929

I mean I get the point but it’s kinda pointless to quibble about numbers when the regime itself acknowledges they killed thousands. The meme implies this is made up but that’s not so.

The Iranian people deserve help but I don’t know what could actually help them. Not what Trump is doing certainly.

The meme does not imply there weren’t thousands of deaths lol.

The reality is, Westerners would never care about a few thousand dead Iranians. They hate brown people way too much. You tell them 36k were slaughtered and suddenly the idea of invading isn’t as morally questionable. The actually point of the meme went over your head fella…

I sat in a room in the UK this week, with 19 other people, with love and tears and anger about what is happening in Iran.

One person in this group is Iranian and another is from Turkey, so also impacted and scared.

I strongly reject the idea that westerners hate brown people as strongly as when I reject the people who claim racism isn’t a thing in the UK.

Hyperbole serves no one when it obscures Truth.

Westerners definitely hate brown people. This is literally backed by science. What the fuck are you talking about?

No it isn’t. You might be able to interpret a study that way, if you choose to.

Actual science doesn’t work that way, it works to exclude choice and bias.

It’s very easy to find westerners who don’t hate brown people and disprove the idea. There’s literally thousands of them in every town in my country. The racists are a real problem, they’re not even a majority and they’re causing real issues.

Yeah, as a research psychologist, I always cringe so hard hearing things like this. There isn’t something special about how white people from regions we lable as “the west” express bigotry. Literally, ever human is capable of creating ingroup outgroup differentiations as illustrated from social identity theory and those can be strongly or weakly oriented towars dominance (i.e. social dominance orientation). I’ve never seen meta analytic evidence showing any subset of the human population to be significantly more prone to social dominance. The thing that makes it so brown people are viewed negatively by “westerners” is the long history of racism pushed by the ruling class to justify atrocities for profit.

Don’t be campist people, work in solidarity with each other and support your fellow man.

There isn’t something special about how white people from regions we lable as “the west” express bigotry.

Whoah what the fuck? Nobody implied otherwise lol. What kind of psychologist cant even read properly? You look crazy mate 🤣

Please then provide a theoretical model backed by meta analytic evidence to show that this group somehow has a fundamentally different cognitive process for interacting with other groups then, I’ll wait

You want me to prove that westerners are racist? LMFAO 🤣

No.

You should really go outside or read something that isn’t political theory or econ as you really don’t have much of an understanding of how your fellow man actually functions. Insulting people who are trying to provide you with different perspectives on how you see an issue is not going to improve yourself or the working class movement. Lead with empathy, I wish you the best.

Highlighting the racism of Europeans IS leading with empathy 🤣

What the fuck kind of logic are trying to employ here?

I have no idea got any of that from my comment, but when you want someone to be your enemy you’ll surely find one l
Got what? What do you think my comment said about you? Go ahead and use your words.