War crimes are war crimes and dead babies are dead babies regardless the perpetrator. The idea that war crimes by democracies are somehow more morally justified than war crimes by extremist groups is ludicrous, and offensive to the victims.
In fact *democracies* should be the ones held up to a higher standard and put under more scrutiny *because* they're democracies. Because they represent the will of an entire people (not a band of militants), and because they represent the concept of democracy itself.
When an extremist group kills innocent people they do not do so while being legitimate representatives of an entire people. Their crime is then theirs only, not a crime facilitated and backed by the will and resources of an entire nation. It shames them, not an entire nation.
When a democracy commits war crimes, the anger that follows is never about the crime alone. It's also about every member of that democracy because the crime was committed in their name. It's also about the very concept of democracy that can be used so cynically and hypocritically
It's both pathetic and revealing seeing the American political establishment - I'm talking the Democrat establishment this time - react when brown people simply speak out their minds about their actual lived realities. Our normal political common sense is that offensive to them.
White supremacy is such a force, and not only on the political right. Will you ever learn that the lived realities and political sensibilities of the rest of the planet are as valid as your own? Or will you throw a hissy fit every time something we say triggers your fragility?
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