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==== The core features of campism ====

===== 1. Binary moral map =====

Reality is flattened into two camps:
* Bad camp: the dominant power (often “the West,” the U.S., NATO, capitalism)
* Good camp: whoever resists it

Nuance becomes betrayal.

===== 2. Moral credit in advance =====

Actors in the “resistance” camp receive automatic moral exemption:
* Their violence is “contextual”
* Their repression is “cultural”
* Their atrocities are “provoked”

Criticism is reframed as “helping the enemy.”

===== 3. Suspension of universal standards =====

Principles like:
* civilian protection
* women’s autonomy
* freedom of conscience
* minority rights

are treated as conditional, depending on who violates them.

This creates a double standard:
* If our camp does it → explain
* If their camp does it → condemn

===== 4. Confusion of explanation with justification =====

Campism often starts with valid analysis:
* colonial history
* imperial violence
* economic domination

But then makes a fatal leap:

: “Because X emerged from oppression, X is therefore legitimate.”

Understanding causes becomes an excuse for outcomes.

===== 5. Emotional loyalty over judgment =====

Campism discourages:
* internal criticism
* solidarity with victims inside “our” camp
* moral self-correction

Critique is seen as weakening the struggle rather than strengthening it.