The most disturbing thing
isn’t just the hatred.
It’s the contradiction.
THE CLAIM
You cannot spend years talking about:
While simultaneously demanding people be returned to regimes accused of crushing all of those things.
That’s the hypocrisy sitting at the centre of modern nationalism.
The Taliban erase women
from public life.
Ban girls from education.
Police bodies and movement.
Restrict speech and identity.
Yet some Western political movements seem more emotionally outraged by refugees arriving than by the conditions those refugees are escaping.
That’s what this image exposes.
Different flags.
Similar rules.
Because authoritarian politics often speaks the same language no matter where it exists: