The West claims anti-imperialist language only when victims are white.

Evidence

While Russia’s advances into a country locked between European aspirations and Russian imperialism exposed the ambitions of Vladimir Putin, Western nations and their media outlets sang a common chorus. In stunning uniformity, Western halls of state and societal power condemned Russia’s siege of Ukraine as “imperialism.” Then they praised the courage of the Ukrainian people fighting against an indomitable army and impossible odds. The language of resistance and the face of anti-imperialism, which long colored campaigns old and new beyond Europe, were given a white and Western face. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1179

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the flag-theory material in ‘Grafting & Growth’? No—better: this is the global-synthesis counterpoint to how the same resistance rhetoric was denied to Middle Eastern populations, tying to reader’s cross-reading with Iftikhar. — connects to: Only atrocities against Europeans, not colonial ones, were held to discredit civilization-talk. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 103; Syphilis only earned ‘innocent victim’ framing once it spread among whites. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 824
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘the whiteness of anti-imperialism’—how one war is titled resistance, another terrorism, based on victims’ race. Sharply testable against Western media coverage.