Sadly and soberingly, we must all face up to the reality of today, where the entitlement and virtue signalling obsession in the west means that there is no place for such nuance or objectivity as Option C any more.
If you don’t embrace the New Cultural Revolution and give unequivocal, full throated support to whatever the latest correct thinking is, well you are literally worse than Hitler! In which case you don’t deserve any human rights and blatant racism against you is what you deserve. Just look at all the blatantly racist virtue signalling actions western organisations have been falling over themselves in their hast to outdo each other in targeting ordinary Russians. The latest being a ban on Russian tennis players by Wimbledon.
The other, far more consequential and chilling aspect of this New Cultural Revolution is how the western media has collectively gone all in on fake news and deliberate disinformation in the most brazen way to date.
Western official news organisations parrot Ukrainian partly line talking points with the kind of total commitment and utter lack of shame that would cause North Korean news anchors mental breakdowns as they struggle to decide whether they should be laughing or taking notes.
Social media is just a frenzy of revolting mutual amplification of the worst war porn blood thirsty glorification of death and indignities being heaped upon brave servicemen corpses and their grieving families hat it frankly challenges any claims of those participating to be from civilised societies. Any dissenting voices are ostracised, or silenced by the western social media companies themselves if they gain enough of a voice and following.
While truth has always been the first casualty of war, rarely have it been murdered so brutally and with such blatant and wonton abandon.
Even this humble forum, normally a bastion of neutrality and rationality, have not been spared. The Ukraine War thread, probably one of the best sources on the internet in terms of its neutral and fair coverage of the war, with viewpoints from both sides presented and critically challenged and analysed, have been forced to be closed. I am sure many waging the information war breathed deep sighs of relief when that happened.