The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.
some of the qatar discourse is like that actually. the west uses those ideals as a cudgel while being massively hypocritical about it so it just makes it super free for reactionary theocrats to oppose both imperialism and minority liberation simultaneously and to tie up those ideas rhetorically.
Only the West would insert itself into it publicly to use it as regime change propaganda, and fund people to agitate for US interests (regime change) at protests.
It worked because Iran is already heavily sanctioned and at odds with much of the rest of the world.
"much of the rest of the world" is a weird way to say the West.
We need an :always-the-same-map: emote
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So you are saying only the west cares about women's rights and gay people's rights? Sounds like lib brain :^)
some of the qatar discourse is like that actually. the west uses those ideals as a cudgel while being massively hypocritical about it so it just makes it super free for reactionary theocrats to oppose both imperialism and minority liberation simultaneously and to tie up those ideas rhetorically.
Only the West would insert itself into it publicly to use it as regime change propaganda, and fund people to agitate for US interests (regime change) at protests.