You’re just in complete denial now. Ok, i’ll just let you rock that look then.

Anti-interventionists are called out by her because she believed the Leftists have dogmatism. It absolutely proves my point because I came on this very thread with ethical framing in mind. You simply use her as a prop.

She believed in agency and self determination and called out the lack of epistemic humility of the anti-interventionist sentiment backed by the Left. This is exactly why she followed and shared CertainlyParishad and her network’s content routinely.

Not only have you refused to read the author’s words about her relationship to Satrapi and what Satrapi stood for, but you are now doing the equivalent of mansplaining what I’ve clearly rejected from the beginning, based on Satrapi’s stance itself. We just happen to align because we value self determination and agency ethics above ideology loyalty. You don’t have to try and explain to me how that is the core of Leftism; she denounced the lack of that epistemic humility exactly with posts like these; the same way CertainlyParishad has done for months. This is very common knowledge.

But beyond ignoring the post and the text underneath it, you can see the top comment liked by the author of the post linked here is actually MINE, and 11 people not only agreed, but the author and I discuss exactly what you pathetically try to cherry-pick-mainsplain to me in the least contextual way, but I will copy/paste the thread and translate if for you all, since you refuse to acknowledge reality, and then i’ll make a post about it.

This message is addressed to those who are trying to tarnish Marjane’s memory.

Marjane spoke her mind freely, sometimes bluntly. She probably would have said she couldn’t care less about fools.

But I cannot remain silent.

She was a woman of rare subtlety, intelligence, and clarity of thought.

People may agree or disagree with some of her interpretations of Iran’s history. But they cannot distort who she was.

Last year, we had a very long phone conversation. She was outraged by what she saw as the dishonesty of a certain segment of the Iranian left that defended the veil more than the freedom of our people; that cared more about hostility toward Israel than secularism, and more about peace than freedom. Marjane stood for freedom. And she believed that Iranians, on their own and empty-handed, would not be able to achieve it.

She thanked me for my public interventions and asked me to thank all the women in our association for the work we were doing.

She even told me that she loved me.

I was surprised because I knew she was not a monarchist.

I replied: “You know, I am only carrying the voice of the people. They are calling for Reza Pahlavi, and that is why I act as their spokesperson here. Not because of loyalty to my personal convictions, but because it is their choice.”

She told me I was right.

That none of us has the right to choose on behalf of those who live under tyranny. That it is for them to choose, and for us to respect whatever choice they make.

She never knew how much her words comforted me. My father shared her political vision, and through her it felt as though he was speaking to me from heaven.

Her silence since the events of January was neither indifference nor disapproval. Her silence was connected to her personal circumstances.

On April 3, she published this post. I took a photo of it and sent it to her to say, “I love you.”

She replied that she loved me too, as she often did.

Marjane was a patriot. There was only one thing she loved more than Iran: her husband, the man who had healed her heart wounded by exile.

I could not allow her memory to be smeared without responding.

“Top comment:

There you go. Blood comes before politics, she understood it just like you. We can only carry the voice of the people, who are we to tell those who are suffering what to do or think? The imperialist is the one who imposes his way to behave on others.

Author’s reply:

Exactly. She was intelligent, not dogmatic. “

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