Author Topic: Our selective support for oppressed women  (Read 878 times)

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Offline TimG

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Re: Our selective support for oppressed women
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2018, 03:58:29 pm »
Good points, but could equally be said about any article painting Palestinians in a bad light.
Yes. It is a quagmire with lots of bad behavior on both sides.

Somewhere in the middle of the opposing media stories is the truth, no doubt, but still leaves the hypocrisy
There is no hypocrisy. Only pragmatism. Advocating for girls to attend school is in a completely different category because there is no reasonable person that can claim that she was wrong or unreasonable. Turning her into a paragon is not likely to backfire. With this Palestinian girl it is quite possible that she is not the white knight she claims to be and may actually deserve to be in jail which would make propping her up as a paragon a risky affair.   
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