A ‘propaganda system will consistently portray people abused by enemy states as worthy victims , whereas those treated with equal or greater severity by its own government or clients will be unworthy.’ Similarly, think of Palestinians vs. Israelis, black and brown refugees vs. Ukrainian refugees, minorities in Syria vs. Syrians, an Iranian woman killed by the Iranian regime vs. women and children killed by Israel or the US. Julian Assange ‘How can exposing crime and torture be worse than committing them?’
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51