A young Iranian woman who fell into a coma after being arrested in Tehran by the notorious morality police died on Friday, state media and her family said, with activists urging those responsible for her "suspicious" death be brought to justice.
:burning cop car emote:
Idk kinda looks like a george floyd moment in Iran
I mean i don't want the US to overthrow the iranian government either but it's also incredibly easy for police not to beat women to death and it's also incredibly easy to not start fingerwagging instead of punishing them.
And yes, the US does use gender, sexuality, race related ngos to exert soft power but when a government actively chooses on doubling down on the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, that's a very legitimate thing to criticise.
In Latin America they excel in this, there's absolutely no reason for the Iranian (or Russian or any other anti-imperialist "heroes") government to not adapt the policies you mentioned. What would happen? The USA would fund 70 year old men to overthrow the government?
I mean i don't want the US to overthrow the iranian government either but it's also incredibly easy for police not to beat women to death and it's also incredibly easy to not start fingerwagging instead of punishing them.
And yes, the US does use gender, sexuality, race related ngos to exert soft power but when a government actively chooses on doubling down on the racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, that's a very legitimate thing to criticise.
In Latin America they excel in this, there's absolutely no reason for the Iranian (or Russian or any other anti-imperialist "heroes") government to not adapt the policies you mentioned. What would happen? The USA would fund 70 year old men to overthrow the government?