[neetdeth]

Great post, and the best point is highlighted in bold.

> Yes, the issues the blog mentioned were real human rights issues, but selective coverage of human rights is propaganda.

Russia’s primary internal justification for war is based around a human rights argument regarding the ethnic Russians in the East.

Similarly, many US interventions around the world.

I guess people here will say our concerns are totally valid and theirs are fake. Western governments don’t lie.

When your scope of concern maps 1:1 to that of the State Department, though, it’s a fair question to ask what’s your motivation for amplifying these messages.

Yes, what’s happening in Iran is bad - what do you want done about it exactly? Because certain people in the US government have ideas about that which may not exactly improve the situation.

[woodruffw]

Western governments lie all the time. You are absolutely correct to assume that the State Department’s interests in Iran do not necessarily align with Iranians who want to live under a non-autocratic government.

At the same time: you are wrong to insinuate that the Rust project’s motivations (or anyone’s really) are those of any government or state’s. The unrest in Iran has the world’s eye; there is nothing about the situation that suggests ulterior motives.

[neetdeth]

To be clear, I’m not imputing motive directly to the Rust project.

I think the people involved have consumed so much American state-affiliated media that they simply don’t ask themselves these questions.

[stormbrew]

> Yes, the issues the blog mentioned were real human rights issues, but selective coverage of human rights is propaganda.

This is not a good argument, it's just an appeal to nihilism.

That's not even remotely what propaganda is, and if you accept that that's what propaganda is then literally all human rights discussion is propaganda because it is nearly impossible to enumerate all of it.