Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن
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Daughter of Iran // Attorney, activist, artist, and other such labels that belie the illimitable dimensions of human existence
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“Anti-imperialist” imperialism, saviorism, and western supremacy explained. As I’ve always this, this is fundamentally a rudiment of the racism of low expectations.
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Message to the world, if they’ll hear us now.
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I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and…
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I have to say something right now because I won’t be able to live with myself if I don’t. For years, I spoke up for the people of Palestine and their right to self-determination and to live in peace. For years, nobody cared. For years, Iranians have spoken up against their…
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The rant is just a reflection of how long we’ve been unheard while people made up crazy narratives and tall tales about the Islamic Regime, with only a sliver of time on are to try to correct the mass disinformation.
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Is it “ceasefire now” or “burn Tel Aviv to the ground”?
Is it “ceasefire now” or “H*mas, H*mas we love you, we support your rockets too”?
Pick one. Either you’re against war or for it, but if your assertions about “humanity” are limited to protecting innocent life on one side…
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It’s really painful having to explain to the anti-racism crowd—something I’ve been a part of myself for the better part of the last decade—why this is not okay. What is happening? Why are we silent as we watch this treatment that we would not accept against any other minority?
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Guess they decided to hear us after all
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The reason people say "river to the sea" is because they believe the entire land is Arab land. The reason they believe the entire land is Arab land is because they don't know that even throughout all the 1,000+ years of Caliphate colonialism, the land was still split between…
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People are okay with Iranians showing solidarity towards:
- Palestinians
- Yemenis
- Syrians
- Lebanese
- Afghans
Etc. But draw the line when showing solidarity towards:
- Israelis
Why? What happened to all humans are humans? Why can’t it be and/both? From the beginning, I…
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To our dear allies:
Please note that Iranians do not identify with the Islamic Republic’s flag, unless they are supporters of the regime.
We identify with our original lion & sun flag, a one thousand-year-old emblem that carries ancient mythological significance, Zoroastrian…
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The commentary about my English accent is racist, American-centric, and ignorant. I’ll break it down for the uncultured navel gazers who are desperately out of touch with the world outside of themselves.
1) Racist: though we were raised in foreign lands, their expectation is…
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The reason myself and other similar Middle Eastern voices get attacked by white western radical leftists more than anybody else is because they’re angrier about the blow to their egos for challenging their narratives and therefore implying that they are not understanding and…
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Discussing how under the banner of “kindness and empathy,” the most unkind and unempathetic people have gathered.
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The leader of the most brutal, oppressive police state in the world—where police beat, rape, torture, and shoot out the eyes of protestors—tweets that people in west are waking up to Israel and America. He’s not wrong, is he? While the world remains asleep to the daily mass…
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Iranians were pushed into silence, told to shut up, and “sit this one out” for so long. Seeing Iranians rising up in unison now against the people who tried to shut us down is giving me LIFE! جانم فدای ایران، وطن را پس میگیریم عزیزان
❤️🤍💚
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Iran continues to be a Black Mirror episode in a dystopian fiction where hashtags online are the only means we have to save people from being lynched. It’s not a fiction, though. For Iranians, it’s reality. Please use the hashtags:
#freetomaj
#toomajsalehi
#stopexecutionsiniran
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I cannot even express the dark thoughts I wish for these foolish useful idiots repeating, spreading, and chanting Khamenei propaganda in America's streets. They have the nerve to tell us Iranians that we "don't represent Iranians" as we sound the alarm for our youth being…
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People really just keep showing how much they haven’t been listening to Iranians for the past 2 years. How many times did we tell you that they can’t speak or they’ll be killed? How many times did we have to take messages they sent us through secret channels to tell us their…
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“Piece of clothing?” What an abhorrent whitewashing and undermining of life under an incomparably brutal regime that flogs women with upwards of 70 lashes, rapes them, eye gauges, and lynches protesters from cranes. A truly unparalleled display of moral bankruptcy by bad actors…
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@fbhutto
as a new monthly contributor to Zeteo! Fatima Bhutto is a Pakistani writer with thought-provoking insights about everything from geopolitics to humanitarian issues to pop culture. Subscribe to read her column, "The Global South" here:
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You can tell the extent of an empire’s imperialism by how many countries speak their language in places they are not indigenous to. 67 countries speak English because of British conquests. 25 countries speak Arabic because of Arab conquests. 21 countries speak Spanish because of…
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Student protests brought in the Islamic Republic to Iran. They were a larger version of the smaller thing now calling for the same thing they were then.
A good law of history is that if you ever find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you are wrong. Every single time. In every era. No matter the issue.
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With a bad foreign accent (pronounced wrong), he mocks our language to teach Americans how to use it against us to harass us with IRGC death chants. Why not say it in English? Why do they insist on harassing us in our own language? All in a days work for “anti-imperialists”
This terrorist supporter, who is not Iranian, is pissed that Iranian people support Israel so he learned a few words of Persian/Farsi & is teaching others to chant “death to Israel & America”. A chant said by Islamic Republic terrorists.
Iranians chant: Death to Islamic Republic
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This is what they do to Iranians inside Iran who speak out against the regime, who the clueless western leftists asked
@piersmorgan
to invite on his show. They keep proving over & again that they have not listened to a word we’ve said, nor do they have any interest in the plight…
Mobina Rostami, an Iranian national volleyball player who posted against Iran attack on Israel and said the people of Iran love Israel was arrested this morning.
One IRGC affiliated social media channel had threatened to ‘stuff her in a sack’
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This is going to make the haters really mad:
1) I’m not Jewish. I’m from a Muslim family. My grandfather did namaz 5 times a day. 2) My family came to the UK as refugees and I grew up poor in an urban neighborhood. We were never rich. 3) I’m not right. I’ve been a lifelong leftie…
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The Islamic Republic’s propaganda in the west through coordinated efforts really has been the most epic, organized, insidious, strategized, monumentally effective and exceptionally successful long-game campaign of our time. They need to make documentaries about it.
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My statement on Aaron Bushnell:
For several years as a criminal defense attorney, I exerted immense effort (and I truly mean immense) to divert veterans out of the criminal justice system into mental health programs that were permitted through recently codified California…
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Bassem, it’s been two days that the Iranian community have asked you politely to correct your error here and you have remained in your inexcusable intransigence. You have been asked by Iranian professionals, lawyers, doctors, politicians, and even your peers not to cross this…
An example of gaslighting we have seen for months . No years . Israel attacks an Iranian diplomatic entity in a foreign country and when they signal that they might retaliate the Zionists are in full victimhood mood : “No look how they want to kill us all ! We might have started…
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This is an older adult indoctrinating a group of young adults, encouraging their zombie-like conformity in repeating instructions to create a human chain around “Zionists” (Jews) so that they can “push them” and get them out of “their camp.” If you can’t see this as dangerously…
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I am responsible for what I said, not what you heard.
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@Tabbyjoon1
Where was I? Talking about it on the news, creating videos & posts on social media every day gaining millions and millions of views, orchestrating campaigns to engage media and politicians with much success. May I ask where you were?
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Why do anti-westerners choose to live in the west? why don’t they move to one of the anti-democratic countries ruled by oppressive regimes that they spend so much time romanticizing online?
The answer is: because they don’t want to. There is an inconsistency between what they…
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The litmus test for radicalization is normalizing suicide, especially from someone removed from the experience. It is the last stage of the most extreme form of brainwashing. It’s Jim Jones “let’s all kill ourselves” radicalization & if you don’t see it, it has gotten you.
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Aren’t these two angelic Iranian sisters everything our beautiful country represents?
Nika Shakarami, on the left, was forcibly disappeared, sexually assaulted, and killed in 2022—at just 17 years old—during the Mahsa Jhina Amini protests.
Her sister Aida, on the right, has…
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If you don’t live in Iran, Israel, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, or Yemen, and you don’t have family who live in Iran, Israel, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, or Yemen: please stop advocating for, glamorizing, justifying, & frothing at the mouth for war.
These are our people’s lives, not your…
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What’s funny about western saviors is how they hate us Iranians but claim to want “save us from western imperialism.” If you hate us so much, why do you want to save us? The answer is they don’t. Just like their imperialist predecessors, it’s their need to control & dominate us.
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The word "terrorist" is not a racial slur.
The word "terrorist" is a descriptor for people who commit acts of terrorism.
Acts of terrorism are acts that intentionally instill terror in their victims.
Therefore: terrorist is not a slur, but a descriptor for those who commit…
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I couldn’t sleep so instead I came up with a word for the angst you feel in your stomach when you meet new people—in life, at the coffee shop, at the gym—who seem lovely but you’re scared to later find out are sympathizers of the Islamic Republic & their proxies:…
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The Iranian community must take a stand now.
American-born white woman, Calla Walsh, asks her audience not to support the "failed foreign woman life freedom movement plot"—an organic movement of grassroots, on the ground efforts of the Iranian people to overthrow their terrorist…
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The Grammy’s acknowledge Toomaj. Thank you a million times, we are just getting started. Keep saying his name
#FreeToomaj
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It comes as no surprise to learn that there are now violent clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine students. American institutions aren't teaching healthy discourse, constructive criticism, and the value of dissent.
Dissent is the backbone of democracy. If we can't teach…
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Ahmed is one of my favorite Palestinian voices. He and I have shared similar experiences of identity erasure by radical white leftists who discovered the Middle East yesterday & tell us we are “not real” Iranians/Palestinians because we reject their racist low expectations of…
I support university students' right to free speech, freedom of expression & peaceful assembly. I detest and reject expressions of or calls for violence, hate, ignorance, or demonization of any type/kind in the name of supporting Gaza & the Palestinian people. You cannot protest…
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I haven’t seen those from anti-racism camps condemn the violent and vitriolic antisemitism on campuses that they watched with their own eyes.
I’ve seen people diminish it and brush it aside as just “a few bad actors,” while we saw hundreds joining in the chants in support of…
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Discussing “guilt laundering” of the Middle East - how some on the left have turned to supporting oppressive regimes as a vehicle to launder their guilt at the expense of the people whose murder they’re co-signing.
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There are 2 ideological movements in the west over the Israel/Palestine conflict. 1) the pro-Israel movement, 2) the anti-Israel movement. There will never be progress until the latter shifts to a pro-Palestine movement, but of course, that would require the world to actually…
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In the madness of one of the craziest and most depressing times, people sending me this stuff has actually been refreshing. lol. I’ll remain in hiding.
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Extremists are people who are not capable of more than one layer of thought.
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Iranians in the diaspora condemning the IRI & its terror proxies: Zionist shills paid for by Israel 🇮🇱 don’t believe them.
Iranians inside Iran condemning the IRI & its terror proxies: “enemy of my enemy is my friend” mindset ⚔️, don’t believe them.
Yemenis condeming the IRI &…
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Mama, we made it into Rolling Stone! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who worked with us to make this happen. Our allies are one of a kind. We are so eternally grateful and we will free them all, together.
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@FrohnmayerJon
Thanks, Jon from California. Your consistently confused feedback on matters such as the Middle East and mental health has been riveting. Next time I have questions about matters I have personally lived or worked closely with, I’ll head to X to ask Jon from California instead.
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Terminologies explained -
Islamic Republic (“IRI”)(جمهوری اسلامی): the government in Iran
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (“IRGC”)(سپاه پاسداران): the armed forces that protect the IRI’s system of governance, “velayat-e faqih (ولایت فقیه) and the supreme leader, “vali-e…
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What are my thoughts on Shaun King converting to Islam? Aside from my disappointment over people falling for the grift, my thoughts are that the Islamic republic’s strategy is unfolding with surgical precision. After funneling billions into western academic institutions &…
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Can we get a campaign going to compile videos by American rappers saying
#FreeToomaj
and that nobody should be killed for Hip Hop music? Is there anyone who can facilitate this?
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What angers me the most is that some day in the near future—a year, five years, ten years from now—these western “anti-imperialist” imperialists will understand how sorely mistaken they were about their understanding of the Middle East and all the harm, destabilization, and chaos…
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If you’re looking for a page that disses the IRI but supports their terror proxies, this isn’t the page for you.
If you’re looking for a page that disses the IRI but thinks Hamas are resistance, this isn’t the page for you.
If you’re looking for a page that disses the IRI but…
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Western leftists calling Iranians “cunts” for speaking about Iran and our right to self determination free from their interference is peak neo-imperialism. These western oppressors just can’t get their grubby boots off our necks.
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The most racist people in the world are those that accuse Iranians, Palestinians, Yemenis etc of being “self-hating” for condemning terrorism.
They are defined perfectly by the concept of “orientalism” - the belief that Mid East/SWANA folk are backward, illiterate savages who…
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So there’s good news and there’s bad news for you. The bad news is that you can’t diminish my physical appearance to compensate for what you lack inside, nor for the fact that you don’t have the intellectual wherewithal to actually counter any of my arguments. The other bad news…
@elicalebon
you know if you stopped a little with the lip filler you'd free up some personal budget & not need those state department checks so badly 🤷🏼♂️
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There have been conflicting accounts about what happened in Gaza this morning. I first heard that IDF opened fire at a crowd of Palestinians who were swarming food trucks, killing at least 100 people. I then heard that this narrative was incorrect & a video was released by IDF…
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With looming prospects of war & the tiktok generation “standing with Iran” (ie Islamic Republic terrorists), aside from the obvious, do you know why I’m so angry? I’m angry because we ended up being right. I’m angry because for months we were gaslit about exaggerating and “not…
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The crucial difference between a bug and a feature when comparing this to prior social justice protests.
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If you glorify suicide and suicidal ideation as “brave” or “heroic,” or try to normalize it by delegitimizing its connection to a compromised mental state, you will have to live with that for the rest of your life, and beyond. Whether you intend it or not, you are making a huge…
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Mohammad Ghobadlou,
2000-2024.
23 years old, barely out of his teens, hanged for protesting for women’s rights,
For freedom in his homeland,
A land that has not enough rivers and oceans to hold our tears.
Our brave compatriot, sweet child of Iran, you were with us last night.…
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No apology for vocally supporting the blood thirsty Mullahs and telling the western world not to support the woman life freedom revolution. No retraction. No remorse. Just blocking the Iranians asking western imperialists to stop devastating our lands.
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What the illiberal left is supporting is in plain sight & of course, who pays the price? These western “activists” sleeping on their goose feather pillows at night? No, the lynched Iranians. Just because you can’t see patterns, doesn’t give you the right to gaslight those who do.
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The neo-colonialist urge for westerners with socialist manifestos in their bios to preach from the hilltops of their elitist western education systems about what is the “correct” narrative of a region they’re not from & who are the “correct” voices of a community they don’t…
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Criticism of the left has become so prohibited, so obsolete that every time I—a life long leftie—do so, I’m labeled “right wing.” They just keep telling on themselves. “Our cult doesn’t allow criticism, so if you are criticizing it, you must be right wing.”
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There are two sets of lives experiencing unimaginable suffering in Gaza right now: 1) Gazans & their families outside; 2) Israeli hostages & their families outside.
So long as you mention both, I promise you that nobody has a problem with it.
So long as you say “ceasefire now”…
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Why do these kids have the audacity to speak for Iranians? How do people go along with inaccurate reads of the unfamiliar?
Imperialism, by definition means, “a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.” She is absolutely right in…
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Here you go, I fixed it.
@ChrisMurphyCT
It’s essential for the public to understand that when scripting this, the administration’s PR collaborated to focus on three key concepts to abate the backlash from this shoddy deal:
1) “Iranian money” - to remind the public that the…
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I wonder if all the radicals who abused me with every vitriolic slur they had in their bones for saying he clearly had mental issues & analogizing it to Jim Jones’s religious cult behavior will apologize now. Doubt it. Who would they be if they weren’t causing harm for “empathy”
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Without saying too much, I want to say that nobody has more honor than those who defend you behind your back when the opportunity for a takedown presents itself. I see you. I find peace in knowing there are still good people in the world.
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White woman living in the spoils of western privilege << gushing >> about her “correctness” over native Iranian people on the ground fighting being lynched, persecuted, and slaughtered, pejoratively snubbed as “regime changers.”
Americans dictating over the voices of Middle…
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They want us to be “brown savages” so bad. They hate that we defy their anti-middle eastern racism of low expectations by actually being civilized like ordinary humans. Sorry to disappoint, but no, Iranians do not support raping random women and dragging their naked bodies…
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@weareallone_1
There’s a difference between opposing what Israel does versus opposing Israel existing. Denying that the latter is popular antisemitic sentiment that is constantly acted upon over and over again is dishonest.
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Let’s not rewrite history. Jesus was born in Judea under Herod the Great’s rule during the Roman conquest, which was previously the Kingdom of Israel. It wasn’t until at least 600 years after Jesus that the Muslim conquests brought Arabization & Islamization of the land.
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One of the darker sides of becoming “known” in the public eye is seeing this pattern of people trying to bait me into conversations to screenshot and make videos/posts about me for likes and views. If they can’t bait me, they make up wild rumors and conspiracies. They actually…
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Campaigns aimed at denying sexual and gender violence against women & perpetuate the culture of impunity in the Middle East are not helpful and actually harmful.
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The moral narcissists of the leftist cult tell people who disagree with them, even in civilized/polite ways, that they’re “trash” who should “get back in their can,” to signal how kind, moral, empathetic, and virtuous they are. They really don’t see it, do they?
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I’ve lost count of the number of non-MENA westerners informing me—a member of the class they are referring to—that the word “terrorist” has been used as a slur against Middle Eastern and Muslim people in the west.
Who would they be if they weren’t explaining our own…
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Many people don’t—and perhaps never will—understand why we do what we do, where our message comes from, or what any of it means, but I’d rather be rejected by the world for being too much of a patriot than adored for being a sellout. جانم فدای ایران
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“Embargo words”—words that shut down our ability to criticize oppressive MENA systems and regimes—such as “self-hating,” “racist,” “Islamophobic,” “western talking points,” etc are a reflection of orientalist infantilization, where the west sees us as too uncivilized and savage…
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Moral narcissism explained:
Moral narcissism is best identified by causing harm in the name of virtue. In the realm of social justice advocacy, virtue is often attached to social or political causes. Moral narcissism adopts a cause (usually many) and weaponizes those causes to…
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American leftists frothing at the mouth for terrorism & chaos in the Mid East. You know, there’s always the option to advocate for peaceful resolution through agreement, compromise, & cooperation, but what would they jerk off to if it wasn’t Middle Eastern blood & urban warfare?
I think October 7th should have been more violent,”
says pro-Palestinian activist.
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Swedish-Iranian actress
#MaralNasiri
won the best actress award at the Guldbagge Awards for her role in “Enemy” & showed up to the ceremony with the names of 71 political prisoners held by the Islamic Republic written on her body. The revolution lives on, we live on.
#freeiran
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Antisemitism is so layered. The first layer is neo-n*zi sentiment that openly and vocally celebrates terrorism against Jews/Israelis, the second layer is blatant ecstasy over the murder of Jews/Israelis, the third is genuine shock at the consequences of this public support…
@dragonfliesout
You know your tweets and retweets are public, right?
This is some of the most extreme pro-Hamas rhetoric I've ever seen and if you really can't see a difference between advocating for Palestinians and leaving heart emojis on Sinwar's face then I don't know how to help you.…
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I’m so proud of our Iranian community that has resisted so much hate, pushback, lies, and threats against us and still stays loud, strong, resilient, vocal, and determined - all the way until freedom.
Most do not realize that the lies spread about Iranian activists to tear us…
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Do people hate the war, terror, massacres, and genocide happening in Iran? Sudan? Syria? Yemen? China? Nigeria? I could go on. The overwhelming majority of war, terror, genocide, and massacres is currently being committed outside of the west (the biggest in Darfur right now) so…
@elicalebon
Myopic view. People aren't anti west they are anti genocide or anti war. The west is the propagators of war, terror, massacres, genocide. The west is actively supporting and committing war crimes. They don't hate the land they hate the traitors who traffic in war
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They can’t help but force qualifications over our inconvenient truths.
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To those whose mission it is to conceal, distort, and obfuscate truth, every truth-teller is a propagandist.
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The decline in consciousness that has taken social justice from the “pulling up” to the “taking down” effect.
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This video from two months ago aged extraordinarily well in the age of emergent IRI fans & their neo-imperialist army. This should also make these concepts much easier to contextualize for those who hadn’t really seen examples of these personalities at the time I originally…
“Anti-imperialist” imperialism, saviorism, and western supremacy explained. As I’ve always this, this is fundamentally a rudiment of the racism of low expectations.
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My face watching the pro-Hamas Iranians who doxxed and harassed us for condemning Hamas & advocating for peace discover that their pro-Hamas movement is in fact *shock, stun, gasp, awe* pro-Islamic Republic.
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