this country is so fucking cool

      • rjthyen@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        10 months ago

        But the differences are slight. Maybe won’t go as far down the oppression of women rabbit hole, but not for lack of trying. Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          51
          ·
          10 months ago

          Merely because, I hope, our society is to far past that for them to drag us back that far.

          These women in Iran just before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 probably thought they were too far past it, too.

            • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              16
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              10 months ago

              Iran. Even if the British and American interference was abhorrent, an Islamic Fascist state wasn’t the only alternative they had.

              Putting all the agency (and therefore responsibility) in imperial powers is also a form of imperialism.

            • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              14
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              10 months ago

              Iran caused that revolution. They were fed up with a leader seen as a western puppet so they replaced him with religious extremist.