I disagree with, ‘we look the other way.’
As in the west.
We cause oppression and regression and exploitation to begin with. The great benevolent watchdog we feel smug about, us Americans, is a gobbler of worlds.
The Middle East, with thousands of years of history, lies in ruins. Westerners called it the ‘cradle of civilization.’ And quite rightly so. One of the rare truths so gushingly mouthed by explorers and historians.
By propping up fascist puppets, Shah of Iran, Pinochet, Army like in in Pakistan, collaborative dictators and others too numerous to recall, too numerous to count, I’m an old woman so bear with me, we have juggernauts of destruction. All for what, OIL?
Bingo.
Why do we Americans not call out clearly documented and apparent crimes against humanity like the concentration camps Palestinians are herded into by you know who. Massacres of Muslims in Kashmir by Modi fanatics, who are fed supremacist rhetoric a la Trump? Who trained Taliban, Savak, Mossad?
Oh we’re the ones who wiped out indigenous peoples, enslaved and murdered millions as in the slave trade. I forgot.
We are creators of all that will destroy Earth.
I’d like to know what is democracy. What’s civilization . What’s human rights. Civil rights.
All the claptrap fed to us sheeple.