by Jim Chimirie on X
Not peace, not freedom, but the comfort of hating the West more than they hate tyranny.
London today offered a clean, ugly picture: peace symbols, Palestinian flags, and the face of the Ayatollah carried by the same crowd. Not as a warning. Not as a protest against the Islamic Republic. As part of the display. The Iranian regime’s flag waved like a badge of virtue, even as that regime crushes its own people with bullets, rope, and torture.
The Islamic Republic is not a hard case. It is not a “grey area”. It is a theocracy that polices women’s bodies, jails dissent, and kills opponents. And in the recent uprisings, some reports put the death toll at over 30,000. Jake Wallis Simons described it plainly: this is not war, it is mass murder. No combatants. No battlefield. Just civilians. That scale matters because it strips away the usual excuses. There is nothing here to contextualise. Nothing to relativise, dilute, or soften. There is only slaughter.
So why do we not see wall-to-wall outrage? Why do we not see the great moral machinery of progressive activism roaring into life for Iranian women, students, and workers? Because this isn’t about human rights. It never was. It is about a story. And the story says the West is the root of evil, Israel is the eternal villain, and anyone who stands against them gets a moral pass, no matter what they do to their own people. Iran destroys the Left’s theory, so the Left dodges Iran.
That is the heart of it. A liberal democracy is treated as uniquely wicked and held to impossible standards, while a theocratic dictatorship is handled with silence, softness, or outright sympathy. The same people who claim to “believe women” can share a march with the symbols of a regime that beats women for showing their hair. The same people who wrap themselves in rainbow flags will stand beside the banner of a state that executes gay men. They do it because their loyalty is not to victims, but to the idea that Western power must always be guilty.