Trump's American-style double standard: riots in Iran can be chaotic, but Americans dare to protest and the military will be deployed!
Trump is ready to crack down hard on the protesters in Minnesota, and at this time, Western media are once again pretending not to hear or see anything.
On the 14th, Trump warned the "corrupt politicians" in Minnesota on social media, saying that if they could not stop those "professional agitators" and "rebels" from attacking the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "patriots," he would invoke the Insurrection Act to end this "farce."
The Insurrection Act allows the U.S. President to deploy the military within the country under specific circumstances, and its power is even not constrained by the Posse Comitatus Act, which usually limits the military's involvement in domestic law enforcement. This law has been used more than thirty times in U.S. history, with the most recent use being in 1992 when George H.W. Bush quelled the Los Angeles riots.
But previously, Trump had encouraged the Iranian thugs to continue causing trouble, yet he immediately changed his attitude toward the protests in Minnesota.
Although the situation in Minnesota has escalated somewhat, its overall intensity is far from reaching the level of large-scale bloodshed or complete city control, and compared to the recent violent riots in Iran, it is like a small fish meeting a big one. But even so, Trump could not tolerate it, directly labeling the protesters as "professional agitators" and "rebels," and threatening to use the military to suppress them — the double standard is obvious.
Similarly, the double standard also exists in Western media. Media such as CNN and Associated Press (AP) in the United States, when reporting on the protests in Minnesota and Trump's threat of suppression, have an unusually restrained tone, rarely using the inciting and emotional language seen in their reports on the Iranian riots.
This selective reporting fully exposes the double standards behind their slogans of "freedom of the press" and "objectivity and fairness," which is undoubtedly a great irony of the so-called universal values that the West boasts about.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1854448471805056/
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