One of the many things that infuriate me about recent trends on the left is the way they talk about solidarity, but what they demand looks and smells an awful lot like loyalty.
Read theory. Read the commentaries on the theory. If you don't understand, that proves you haven't read enough. If you disagree with any of it, that proves you're a bad person.
Follow the right influencers. Support the right politicians. Follow the leaders of our movement. Until we decide they're bad people, anyway.
March in our protests. Commit to our boycotts. Donate to our causes. Don't ask what we hope to achieve or how we think we're going to get that effect from what we're doing. Only a bad person would ask those questions.
Wave the flags and shout the slogans of people who want to kill you. People who don't see you as human because you're a woman, because you're queer, because you're Western. If you think solidarity requires any element of reciprocity, even to the point of both sides recognizing each other's human rights, that proves you're a bad person.
I've been seeing this since before 2023. They're always talking about "allies" when they mean "supporters". allyship goes both ways, but a lot of the western left decided on a list of causes you have to support and expect nothing in return because "support isn't transactional", yeah well I'm not gonna support people who want me dead no matter if they claim to be helping others.
Yeah, "not transactional" is another term that's changed its meaning. Used to be "don't expect an immediate reward for helping", now it's "you're obligated to help even people you know would NEVER help you and in fact wish you harm".
And the division between "I think even terrorists have inalienable human rights" and "I'm willing to help terrorists acheive their political goals, harming others' human rights in the process"? Poof, gone.
























