Progressive Selective Solidarity

Many self‑identified progressive outlets and institutions systematically calibrate solidarity by first presuming moral innocence for actors labeled as ‘other’ and moral guilt for their own societies; applied to Iran, this produces near‑silence or apologetics when citizens rise against authoritarian rule. That selective empathy is not random but an ideological filter that affects what protests are covered, which victims are amplified, and how foreign‑policy claims gain or lose traction. — If widespread, this pattern undermines the credibility of human‑rights advocacy, alters which international crises mobilize Western opinion, and reshapes left‑of‑center foreign‑policy coalitions and electoral politics.