• Etterra@discuss.online
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    And then these same monsters get all butthurt that there are people who hate them

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      I think there are cultural differences that we ought to tolerate and be mindful of our biases on (how you prepare food, the clothes you wear, difference in manners, accents, language, etc.) and there are things which are universal evils (murdering children for not marrying).

      It is unfair to ascribe the latter to all people belonging to a particular culture (the “you people” comment), since “universal” evil goes both ways - all people should consider it evil, but it is not unique to a particular people. A strange duality. Reminds me of the dad who “accidentally” shot and killed his daughter in Texas after an argument about Trump and was never investigated.

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        You do realize that race and behavior are not intrinsically linked, right? Murdering and raping children are evil no matter who the hell does it.

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        Okay. I’ll fix OP’s comment.

        “And then these same monsters get all butthurt that there are people who love the same gender”

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        We’re all against white washing racism, but murdering women just because they refuse to be force marriage their cousins is wrong no mater what culture you speak of.

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        if I wanted to hear what an idiot had to say I would jam my Hands up your ass and puppet your mouth manually fuckwad

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    The headline is misleading. The article is even worse.

    The girl was not killed for refusing to marry. The girl ran away from home over the marriage (the strategy had worked for her to get out of her first marriage, at age 13). She was caught by a neighbor who did something bad to her (she did not want to say what and her family did not want to hear it). When her family found her 3 days later, they killed her for hiding at the neighbor’s house (despite the fact that she was taken there unwillingly).

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        Why wouldn’t people up vote? The original comment said the main article was worse than the headline, and summarised why they thought so. What are you objecting to?

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          The…wrongness…The article is not even worse. The article says exactly what he claims it doesn’t. And regardless, the point is that she was ultimately killed because she tried to escape. The family’s justification is worthless, and irrelevant.

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            Worse as in the actions described are even more vile, not inaccurate.

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    Women in Iraq have been treated like absolute dirt and their literacy rates have plumeted from 99% under Saddam to around 50% last time I checked.

    The breakdown of law and order is a direct result of American and Israeli interference and overthrow of Saddam after a decade of sanctions in the 90s.

    Israel has been trying to crush Iraq for much longer and wanted it to be a failed state since the 1970s. Prior to Saddam even. This is the fate they want for all Arab countries.

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      Another disastrous Conservative outcome. They are always complaining about how incompetent government is, but it’s not the government that’s incompetent, it’s THEM.

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      I was curious and looked up adult women literacy rates for women in Iraq and this shows 64% literacy rate for women with 15+ years age in 2000 and 78% in 2021 for the same category. For female youths aged 15-24 it rose from 80% to 91% over the same time period (though in the intervening period that did indeed drop to 72-73% in their stats during the chaos of the Iraq War).

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        It’s great when people bring the receipts and take the time to source a comment. Seriously, thank you.

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        and this shows 64% literacy rate for women with 15+ years age in 2000 and 78% in 2021 for the same category

        It’s a very thin data set. One entry for 2000. Nothing beforehand. Then nothing for 12 years that just happen to occur during the height of invasion and mass displacement of the population.

        Wikipedia would suggest the literacy rate was high prior to 2000. After the invasion, there’s very mixed data, with high enrollment rates conbined with high dropout and grade repeat rates. But it’s an article plagued with dead links, so…

        I don’t think it’s controversial to say the war and mass displacement resulted in declining standards for education.

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          It’s a very thin data set. One entry for 2000. Nothing beforehand. Then nothing for 12 years that just happen to occur during the height of invasion and mass displacement of the population.

          I’m happy to see any data you have, that’s why I looked because 99% seemed incredibly high and the drop to 50% horrible and I wanted to check out that data. I agree this is sparse though it does ultimately come from UNESCO. There is a point on the 15-24 year old female youth graph for 2006 which is in the middle of that and another on 2011, which were the 72-73% I acknowledged. A decline of 8% for the youth until it started recovering in 2012 onward is what this particular source gives.

          Wikipedia would suggest the literacy rate was high prior to 2000. After the invasion, there’s very mixed data, with high enrollment rates conbined with high dropout and grade repeat rates. But it’s an article plagued with dead links, so…

          Where that Wikipedia article says “literacy levels were high” you can see that it also links to links to World Bank Open Data - the same source I used - except unsuccessfully. I would disagree that it was high based on World Bank Open Data though. If you look up global 15+ year old women’s literacy rates, the global average in 2000 was 76% so 64% in Iraq looks kind of bad comparatively.

          I don’t think it’s controversial to say the war and mass displacement resulted in declining standards for education

          I agree and that matches up with the drop in literacy rates for young women (whose ongoing education you would expect to be more affected by war in eight years of their childhood than for the adults). I was commenting just with respect to the stats because I was surprised.

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    After running away from her first marriage (she was married at 13). She finally got a divorce and then was told to marry her cousin who was literally coming out of prison.

    How can someone care so little for their own kids. Absolutely vile.

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      For the same reason that American Christians would beat a gay person to death and then argue the gay panic defense in court.

      They’ve been raised to believe that these made-up rules for their imaginary friend are a more important consideration than the reality right in front of them.

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        Nope. Thats just religious extremism for ya.

        For example 36 white American Christians in Oklahoma just voted against ending child marriage and they quoted the Bible as their reason

        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/36-oklahoma-republicans-vote-against-child-marriage-ban/ar-AA24bCyP

        "Rep. Derrick Hildebrant quoted Hebrews 13:4, questioning “Hebrews 13:4 – ‘Let marriage be held in honour among all.’ Does ‘among all’ now only mean those who are 18 and older?”

        And here’s another white Christian proposing a bill to give the death penalty to woman who seek abortions. He serves on the board of a church in north carolina.

        “The legislation, backed only by Republican state Representative Keith Kidwell, would classify abortion as first-degree murder and open the right of another person to defend the life of the unborn baby** as they see fit.**”

        https://www.newsweek.com/republican-bill-deadly-force-stop-abortions-north-carolina-12005136

        “Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”

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          Religious extremism is inseparable from religion. And the religion in question in that story about the murdered girl is islam.

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          You do realize that “Christianity bad” doesn’t mean that “Islam bad” is false, right?

          Both can be true at once.

          I will however dispute that it is a question of extremism. The fact is that a majority of muslims, globally, hold views that I would consider to be misogynistic (feel free to update me on that if there is a more recent global study with the same scope).

          If something is the norm in a group rather than a fringe idea, it can hardly be considered extremism. Given that Islam has many of these misogynistic values close to its’ core, it isn’t particularly shocking either.

          As such, considering the above, I consider Islam to be bad on the whole. Note: this doesn’t mean that someone is inherently “bad” due to being muslim, or that “good” muslims don’t exist - I am acquainted with a few.

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            Christianity is barbaric, cruel and hateful

            Judaism is cruel, barbaric and hateful

            Islam is barbaric and hateful and cruel

            They’re all fucked

            What’s happening in the middle east would be happening regardless of their superstition. It’s a region that has always been unstable, and WWI & II resulted in the west trying to drag them into their sphere of influence to take the oil

            But I’d like to see the people who did this burn slowly, as well as anyone in the world who thinks it’s ok

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        That’s brainwashing for ya*

        ~25% of all humans are Muslim, do you seriously think every single one agrees with this?
        A good example is that only a tiny part of Christians are pedophiles but you, based on the logic in your comment, think all of them are.
        Islam isn’t the issue, extremism and shitty humans is. The vast majority of Muslims think this is just as fucked up as we do, because the vast majority of humans are just like us.

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        No, that’s people brainwashed by ideology “for ya”. You don’t seem to have the mental capacity to process that, so just try to talk to people you disagree with more, and widen your horizon.

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                More of a question for the two dozen or so people upvoting the comments. Even if they’re trolling (and not just an islamophobe), there’s clearly a fair number of people that think these are reasonable opinions to hold. Getting people to think about the beliefs they hold is an important part of reducing -phobic behavior in general.

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              You’re right!

              I’ll happily condemn any ideology (not just religious ones) that teaches people it is okay to force underage girls into marriage and murder them when they try to escape.

              Did you have one in mind?

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                  Yes, I was.

                  Disconnecting religion from law & institutions was a brutal process that took centuries here in Europe, and it is very disconcerting to see organized religion exerting an increasing influence in society. In the US it is less “freedom from religion” (like we have here) and more “freedom of religion” (please pick one).

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          No, that’s people brainwashed by ideology “for ya”.

          That’s just a long way of saying “islam”

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    That’s the amount of control over women that American conservatives dream of.

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    Over 260k people killed in the Iraq War, mostly civilians, over $1 trillion spent, over nearly 9 years, just so we could have another Afghanistan.

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          On the flip side, I’m glad I did. They fulfill my life in more ways than I could have imagined.

          That doesn’t make either one of us right of course, I’m glad you’re happy with your decision because I’ve met those in the past who regretted it. Mine don’t want them either, well at least for now.

          What it does make us is CAMPIONES…sorry, wrong place.

          How are you today anyway

          I edited this too, I added a sentence in the centre

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      I feel you, but nobody can lose his right to exist because nobody should be allowed to make that decision. You are criticizing that they decided she was not allowed to exist and in the same sentence you take that right upon you top decide they should not exist.

      To be frank: they need to be locked up, educated and reformed to protect society from them.

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        nobody can lose his right to exist

        Rights apply to everybody, even people who don’t deserve them. I said they don’t deserve to exist, not that they didn’t have the right to exist. It’s an important distinction.

        A person who doesn’t deserve to exist should thank their lucky stars that they were born in a time and a place when society will let them exist, anyways.

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      Yeah it’s easy to think that but I’d be wary of embracing that level of extremism. Colonial powers used similar arguments to justify the extermination of peoples around the world for centuries ie. “the civilizing mission”. Your framing is also indistinguishable from core frameworks within facism.

      I agree with your anger but not with your worldview. People and cultures adapt over time, and I’d sooner do what I can to influence change in a culture for the better, before questioning whether one “deserves” human rights. But… that’s just my culture. Let’s hope it deserves to exist 🤞.

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        Your framing is also indistinguishable from core frameworks within facism.

        In what ways, specifically?

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          The framing of whether a culture “deserves” to exist was a justification to pursue the extermination of Jewish and Roma people in fascist Germany, as one example. From that and other similar acts of destruction in the name of cleansing or purity came a new world order with the concept of inalienable human rights.

          When you speak on the erasure of a culture, which is often an abstract set of ideas around which clear boundaries can rarely be drawn, you justify a collective punishment that is antithetical to this foundational idea.

          Individuals should be held accountable for their actions according to the rule of law.

          Saying that a culture doesn’t deserve to exist undermines the idea of inalienable human rights, normalizes ethnic cleansing and ultimately takes us back to a much darker period of human history.

          I may not have lived through world war 2, but I am not keen on unlearning the lessons that were learned from it.

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            I can see why you said “framing” and “frameworks”, because that sort of vague criteria is really where any similarities end, but you went too far by saying that it’s “indistinguishable”.

            I was talking about not just murder of a completely innocent child of their own blood, but of an entire clan’s celebration of the event by dancing. It’s the culture that birthed that reaction that is at fault. And all of those people dancing in the streets enabled that murder. There is no chance that the murderer didn’t know they’d get such a positive reaction.

            The culture is wrong. It doesn’t deserve to exist. If they want to change their culture to get rid of the murder of and the celebrating of the murder of innocent children, then the previous culture which condoned those murders will have ceased to exist.

            Just because fascists criticize cultures with harsh language doesn’t mean that any criticism of a culture using similar language needs to be shot down as having similarity to fascism. You can actually look at the specific allegations.

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              Ok let’s be precise with our language. What culture are you referring to? Do you have a name for it?

              It simply is indistinguishable from fascism because ultimately the fascists decided which cultures were problematic, who was a part of them and therefore who “deserved” to be exterminated.

              Your criticism alone isn’t what likens your view to fascism, its the language you chose, which implies a disregard for inalienable human rights that does.

              Do you, the one who apparently decides which cultures are worthy and which are not, get to decide how a culture is defined and who is a part of it?

              Who is a part of it in this case? Who would you like to erase? People that look like them, speak like them, worship like them?

              We punish individuals for their actions according to the rule of law.

              You may want to go back to a time when we judge individuals based on the actions of those we perceive to be similar to them. I do not.

              I don’t know which culture youve come from to arrive at this worldview, but as problematic and regressive as it is, I still acknowledge your personhood / humanity. I seek not to erase it (despite its flaws) nor do I deem you or anyone “spawned” from it to be unworthy of existance. People, communities and cultures are often indiscrete and in a constant state of adaptation. This type of rhetoric belongs in an era that should be left behind.

              Yours is the language that seeks to enable genocide. It normalizes the idea of punishing the many for the actions of the few based on vague, perceived similarities. Criticize all you want but be mindful of the words you choose.

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                Dude you can’t just accuse people of supporting genocide and shit when they’ve not done anything of the sort.

                It’s not unreasonable for people to look at a mass of other people who are cheering on the rape and murder of their own relative and think “yeah, the world doesn’t need that lot”

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                  He did though, which is why his comment was removed. Saying a culture “doesn’t deserve to exist” is neo Nazi rhetoric. He’s free to criticize these specific people, advocating for ethnic cleansing is indefensible though. Of course when asked to define the culture he deemed unworthy of existence, he made a run for it.

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                Ok let’s be precise with our language. What culture are you referring to? Do you have a name for it?

                My language was precise. I said exactly what I intended to say. All you’re doing here is confessing that you began criticizing me without sufficient reason to do so, and now you need me to say something else that you might actually be able to argue against.

                It simply is indistinguishable from fascism because ultimately the fascists decided which cultures were problematic, who was a part of them and therefore who “deserved” to be exterminated.

                This is a straw-man. I never said anybody or anything deserved to be exterminated. Strange… if the language I used was actually that bad and “indistinguishable”, there wouldn’t be any need for you to change it, would there?

                In your first two paragraphs, you have already managed to demonstrate twice that you have no intention of making an honest attempt at discussing the actual subject here. From where I’m sitting, you seem desperate to manufacture offense that you’ll take the side of a culture that celebrates the murder of an innocent girl, and try to paint critics of that culture as fascists.

                I skimmed the rest of your comment. “erase” “punish” “genocide”. Yep. Lots of dishonest injection of charged language and strawmen. Sorry, I’m not even going to bother really reading the rest of your comment, as you’ve made your intentions here clear. I’ll just be blocking you.

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    Damn! on the one hand, humans are doing innovation in science and technology and on the other hand, such barbaric things still exist in this world.

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      It exists everywhere but in differents forms. In east it is family sanctioned rape of children in west it is money sanctioned rape of children. In some of these cases, people doing cutting edge science are involved, either as willing observers or possibly active participants. Common denominator is humans.

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        Yeah, humans might have a lot of Technologial evolution but we have nowhere as much Social evolution and even less Psychological evolution.

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          Tbf the labeling of child soldiers is kinda misleading considering that the vast majority of them are 15-17 years old. At that age you can join most military organizations around the world with parental permission. Alternatively most countries have military schools, where active duty military personnel are training teens to become soldiers.

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            UNICEF labels anyone enlisted under 18 as a child soldier, and lobbies those governments who follow the practice to stop. Most countries now have changed to 18+, but there are some holdouts as low as 16 (Britain).

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              Its 17 in the US, and nearly every decent sized high school and some middle schools in America have Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program.

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            That doesnt make it better for me so much as pointing out how bad others are as well.

            But I also think 18 is too young for war too, so there’s that.

            I’d also note - vast majority <> all.

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              That doesnt make it better for me so much as pointing out how bad others are as well.

              My main point was that there is a discrepancy about how we speak about or label the actions of certain cultures or groups of people as opposed to the same actions taken by westerner nations.

              I’d also note - vast majority <> all.

              There are younger recruits, but I believe they are more a kin to being in military school, being taught tactics and self defense. I believe the official age for combat roles is 18.

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                Yeah, and I’m saying that doesnt make it better for me. Not for them, not for others.

                I think its shitty having anyone with ‘teen’ in their age going off to fight or prepping for it.

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                  Yeah, and I’m saying that doesnt make it better for me. Not for them, not for others.

                  My response wasn’t aimed at making you feel better. I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of a specific criticism often aimed at the ypj when several western powers do the same thing.

                  think its shitty having anyone with ‘teen’ in their age going off to fight or prepping for it.

                  Yes, war is obviously bad.

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    Quick import them in mass in european and society and go complaining about “men” after