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Shit like this keeps happening and Iran just shows incredible amounts of restraint.

Meanwhile, the “only democracy in the Middle East” is allowed to act like a rabid dog.

The liberal model not working for a developing country?

No, political is things that make me personally uncomfortable

China: we’re going to become a manufacturing machine for the world, but we’re going to use your investment, technology, and infrastructure to build up our country and eventually overtake you.

US capitalists: hah, yeah, sure. Would you look at these profit margins!?

We’re all subject the cultural norms of the society that we live in. Particularly with religious norms, maintaining them can be coercive.

But that doesn’t mean that burkas, in and of themselves, are regressive.

Shouldn’t the goal be to create a space that is free of coercion so people can actually choose to wear it if they want to? Outright banning them is just enforcing a different cultural norm.

Well, Russia isn’t fantastic