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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 809463" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>One of the things I find incredibly ironic is the double standard we are applying towards human rights in other nations.</p><p> </p><p>Back in the 1980's it was a popular liberal cause to boycott goods from South Africa because of that nations policy of aparthied. Blacks in that country were second-class citizens with no civil rights, and the world was (justifiably) outraged.</p><p> </p><p>Fast-forward to 2011. Today there is a nation that arbitrarily denies civil rights to half of its population. These people are denied the right to vote, the right to work, and the right to drive a car. They cannot allow their faces to be seen in public, and they are considered to be the "property" of their owners. They can be beaten, stoned, or even put to death for actions which are not even crimes anywhere else.</p><p> </p><p>That nation is Saudi Arabia, and those people are women.</p><p> </p><p>I wonder why it is that during the 1980's there was no shortage of well-meaning people who spoke out in protest over the <em>racial</em> aparthied policies of South Africa, yet those same people are silent today when it comes to the <em>gender</em> aparthied policies of Saudi Arabia.</p><p> </p><p>My best guess is that its pretty easy to "boycott" a nation that doesnt have anything you really need anyway. Its a little more complicated to "boycott" a nation that produces a third of the oil that we import. Apparently, our need to drive gas hogs outweighs our sense of outrage over the fact that half of the human beings in Saudi Arabia have the legal status of cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 809463, member: 14668"] One of the things I find incredibly ironic is the double standard we are applying towards human rights in other nations. Back in the 1980's it was a popular liberal cause to boycott goods from South Africa because of that nations policy of aparthied. Blacks in that country were second-class citizens with no civil rights, and the world was (justifiably) outraged. Fast-forward to 2011. Today there is a nation that arbitrarily denies civil rights to half of its population. These people are denied the right to vote, the right to work, and the right to drive a car. They cannot allow their faces to be seen in public, and they are considered to be the "property" of their owners. They can be beaten, stoned, or even put to death for actions which are not even crimes anywhere else. That nation is Saudi Arabia, and those people are women. I wonder why it is that during the 1980's there was no shortage of well-meaning people who spoke out in protest over the [I]racial[/I] aparthied policies of South Africa, yet those same people are silent today when it comes to the [I]gender[/I] aparthied policies of Saudi Arabia. My best guess is that its pretty easy to "boycott" a nation that doesnt have anything you really need anyway. Its a little more complicated to "boycott" a nation that produces a third of the oil that we import. Apparently, our need to drive gas hogs outweighs our sense of outrage over the fact that half of the human beings in Saudi Arabia have the legal status of cattle. [/QUOTE]
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