I’d say rather than Western ideals, they should support the human rights some Western ideals are based on. My biggest contentions with Islamist regimes are women’s and queer rights. Sure acceptance of queer people is a long road for such societies, but you can make sure that the government doesn’t persecute them and that the government even enforces non-discrimination regulations.
You don’t see why saying this about Gaza is patently absurd? They don’t have a functioning government. The whole place is nothing but rubble and families trying to find the bodies of their loved ones buried underneath that rubble. They’ve been subjected to 2 years of constant aerial bombardment, as if the previous decades of occupation, no access to clean water or any economic contact with the rest of the world wasn’t bad enough. It just strikes me as something one can only say if they don’t know anything about the situation at hand, and they only know that Gaza is a city and Palestine is a country.
Like seriously, they live in a concentration camp. Would you say anything like this about the inmates of Auschwitz? Oh no, some of them are misogynists! Oh no, some of them have backwards social views on queer people! Can you do something about the gas chambers first before you deal with those topics, though?
I’d say rather than Western ideals, they should support the human rights some Western ideals are based on. My biggest contentions with Islamist regimes are women’s and queer rights. Sure acceptance of queer people is a long road for such societies, but you can make sure that the government doesn’t persecute them and that the government even enforces non-discrimination regulations.
You don’t see why saying this about Gaza is patently absurd? They don’t have a functioning government. The whole place is nothing but rubble and families trying to find the bodies of their loved ones buried underneath that rubble. They’ve been subjected to 2 years of constant aerial bombardment, as if the previous decades of occupation, no access to clean water or any economic contact with the rest of the world wasn’t bad enough. It just strikes me as something one can only say if they don’t know anything about the situation at hand, and they only know that Gaza is a city and Palestine is a country.
Like seriously, they live in a concentration camp. Would you say anything like this about the inmates of Auschwitz? Oh no, some of them are misogynists! Oh no, some of them have backwards social views on queer people! Can you do something about the gas chambers first before you deal with those topics, though?