Thread by @GeorgeMonbiot

It's a simple matter.
Crimes against humanity are wrong.
Denying them is wrong.
But so effective has Syrian and Russian propaganda been, and so much confusion has it caused, that stating these simple truths attracts a thousand trolls.

Every time Bashar al-Assad launches a chemical weapons attack, his apologists claim
a. It never happened.
b. It was an accident or
c. It was a ‘false flag’ attack.
When these claims are debunked, they simply transfer them to the next attack.

Next time you see someone denying a chemical weapons attack by Assad’s forces, asked them which of his CW attacks they agree *have* happened.

Some of the same people now also deny the horrific treatment of the #Uighur people by the Chinese government. There seems to be a cadre of Western ghouls, shifting from atrocity to atrocity, denying them and exonerating the perpetrators.

I’m ashamed to note that many of these ghouls claim to be on the left. If being on the left means anything, it should mean caring about other people’s lives. Instead, they see everything through a geopolitical lens. If “our” bastards are doing it, it must be OK.

They create a mirror image of the heartless strategic interests of Western governments. The internet is awash with mini-Henry Kissingers, prepared to sacrifice anyone or anything if it serves a geopolitical cause.
This is the socialism of fools.

We seem to be in an age in which it’s OK not to care. Whether you are Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro or an atrocity-denying leftist, you can brush away the lives of others with total unconcern.

Why do I keep writing about this?
Is it because I’m a “Western imperialist warmonger” working for MI5/Mossad/WEF etc? (Seriously, I get called all of this and worse).
No, it’s because I care about two things here:
1. human lives
2. the state of the left.