More and more often we are seeing the large corporate social influencer “activists” becoming completely incoherent in their positions on social media. A great case in point is the recent debacle with Greta Thunberg. Greta Thunberg has stirred controversy and protests against her across India in the past few days. This is due to her stated support of the farmers protest movement that is sweeping across the west of India.
The following article lays out the entire affair in great detail: As Fake As Her Tweets
It is interesting to note that yet again a large western social media ‘star’ is commenting on issues in a way that indicates she cannot do any deeper analysis on the cause she is supporting. A large portion of the farmers’ movement has been taken over by a conservative Sikh movement that seeks the independent religious homeland for the Sikhs in Khalistan, based along Punjabi ethnic separatism.
This movement recently stormed the Red Fort in Delhi as part of their movement. This storming had very similar parallels in its intent, the reaction of the state and the reaction of the wider community in India as the earlier storming of the US capitol had in the United States.
Yet a quick purview of Greta Thunberg’s twitter shows a confusing mash of statements about these ideologies. Whilst Greta did not directly comment on the US Capitol event she did retweet this tweet, which indicates at least some support for the ideas contained within. Here the storming of the US capitol is portrayed as a violent event that was tantamount to an attempted coup.
At least 13 people were arrested today in connection to a violent mob that stormed the Capitol as part of an attempted coup.
138 @sunrisemvmt climate activists were arrested during a peaceful sit in of Nancy Pelosi’s office back in Dec 2018.
Yet only a few weeks later Greta tweets out regarding the events in India declaring them a ‘peaceful protest’.
I still #StandWithFarmers and support their peaceful protest. No amount of hate, threats or violations of human rights will ever change that. #FarmersProtest
This is a ridiculous take to have. The authors of this blog also support the farmers’ movement in India and indeed they support the right of Khalistan to have its self-determination if it wishes. In exactly the same way the Confederate States of America have a right to restore their self-determination if they wish. But we cannot pretend the events in Delhi were peaceful protests. In fact they were the textbook definition of a violent insurrection against the Government.
Once again we must wonder why western activists are continually pushing a double standard in their perspective on world events. Armed insurrections against sitting governments are perfectly appropriate abroad. Indeed they are considered a human right and much time and effort is put into arming and financially supporting many of these movements. Yet any armed insurrection at home is considered some terrible event that should never be allowed.
This is a complete continuation of the colonialist mindset. Good ‘western white’ countries never have armed uprisings. Dirty ‘third world brown skinned countries’ are allowed to have coups as their standard operating procedure. Activists have to break this pattern of thinking if we are to hope to have any coherence going forward. All credibility in the activist left is being destroyed currently by this mindset and this action.
We also see Greta has gone even further down this line of reasoning, recently retweeting out support for the protests in Russia in support of Alexei Navalny.
Sometimes I have feeling that we live in occupied territories. Half of city center was "closed down".One man set himself on fire! More than 4000 people were detained.I don't know what will happen next, but there are lot of us, we are tired of putting up with all this #FreeNavalnypic.twitter.com/OJFTnxK3bF
Again the authors of this blog completely support the right of the citizens of the Far East and Siberian regions of Russia to secede. However that is not what the Navalny movement seeks to do. It is yet again another colour revolution being run by the Western Oligarchy in an attempt to replace Putin with a western backed puppet. In this case Navalny is everything these same groups were claiming for four years that Donald Trump was. He is a formerly wealthy Russian who campaigned for the “Stop Feeding the Caucasus” campaign and even openly supported the idea that Muslim Caucasians from Chechnya and Dagestan were akin to Cockroaches who should be killed. He is literally a White Supremacist in the Russian context.
One can imagine a Navalny Presidency in Moscow building a giant wall along the southern borders of Rostov Oblast. Yet here is the darling of the Western Left, Greta, openly supporting his movement.
It is hard to tell if in the social media world it is just too easy to rush into whatever the latest trend is, or if indeed these accounts are being controlled by very strategic, psychological warfare officers of the NATO Empire. Either way, if the left wants to restore any credibility in itself and stop haemorrhaging support to the nascent, so called, Alt - Right it needs to stop being so ridiculously over the top with its hypocrisy. Greta’s popularity in the third world has taken a massive hit this week as a result of this nonsense. The rest of the Western left would be wise to learn from these mistakes and start thinking more deeply about what they actually ideologically support.
This problem is not just present in the Left either. We have seen recently Rudy Giuliani advocating for an investigation into what is clearly very real election fraud, perpetrated by the Democratic Party in America. Yet he couches it in terms that it is some sort of Communistic plot from the Democrats and lauds himself as a staunch anti Communist campaigner, resisting the fraud.
Yet this narrative completely ignores the fact that the Democrats clearly do not have anything remotely resembling Marxism in their economic policies. It also fails to explain why such an anti-communist has spent the past five years exuberantly attending all sorts of rallies hosted by the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, or MEK, a self professed Marxist militia from Iran. This organisation still maintains the Socialist star and the sickle symbol in its flag. Again this is hypocrisy bordering on black comedy.
Modern politicians, of all sides, current propensity to not stay true to their professed ideologies and to just go with whoever pays them the most is causing an increasing era of instability. We must find a way to restore some semblance of ideological coherence, if we want to once again be able to make actual and sensible changes for the current world system going forward. Simply following hack rhetorical movements from social media is not going to get us there. Greta has lost huge amounts of credibility in the past month with her social media footprint.
The ability to do a tiny amount of background checking on issues that one follows on Social Media should surely not be too hard for many to begin doing, before they just herd into movements they think they support blindly. Indeed it has been this dynamic that has caused so many to go along with the hugely damaging herd thinking around the lockdowns and the Covid pandemic and this instance with Greta is a great example of how this current social dynamic is working.
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