Sorry but Dubai and the USA are in no way comparable in terms of key performance indicators on human rights.
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These issues are “not just bs” or “Islamophobic” - copying what I put in the Dubai thread:
Emirati women live under male guardianship.
Loopholes in the law allow reduced sentences for men for killing a female relative. Honour killings can go unpunished as the victim’s family can pardon the murderer.
Marital rape is legal.
A woman in the UAE can lose her right to financial maintenance from her husband if she refuses to have sexual relations with him without a “lawful excuse.”
The majority of the population is made up of migrants - many female migrant workers have few, if any, employment rights and are at risk of labour exploitation. This is particularly true for domestic workers - e.g employers taking away their passports
Even the women in the Royal Family there have been subject to disgusting misogynistic treatment - Sheikh Mohammed abducted his 2 daughters - there was a Panorama investigation on it and it’s horrific.
That’s before you come to the issue of homosexuality being illegal.
The internet and telecomms in Dubai is also heavily censored - VoIP services (ie phone calls via WhatsApp) are banned. There is a lack of freedom of press.
Slavery is all but legal - majority of the population are migrants and make up 90% of the workforce in the UAE - because they’re migrants, they have little to no labour rights
The UAE does not have democratically elected institutions and citizens do not have any rights to change their government or form political parties.
It isn’t even remotely comparable to the US in any meaningful way.
In the US,
we had to watch a doctor get fined for giving a 10 year old rape victim an abortion (this was recent).
Some doctors can even face jail time for giving abortions. Not just doctors but even other medical professionals can get charged just for assisting in any capacity.
Women have spent time in jail and been convicted as criminals for their miscarriages bc the courts found them guilty of abortion.
Rape is only a few days to a few months in jail if you're "not a bad person for society". google Brock Turner
New mothers and pregnant women have their monthly wages reduced if they go on maternity leave. and the gov't does not provide any financial assistance.
Children deemed "illegal" are kept in literal cages for months/years. they are separated from their families and some children were even lost by the system and the families (who are also illegal) have no real help in getting their children back.
Child marriage is still legal.
Most "migrant workers" are just modern day slaves who work long grueling hours under the hot sun in farms, with severely low pay, no rights or access to any real legal help bc most of them don't have legal documents. Oh and this is completely legal for their employers to do. and no they can't just leave bc they're brought to a new state/country with no means of getting back to their homeland unless they want to go through ICE.
Inmates in prisons have jobs where they're paid like 15 cents for an hours work to make products for big brands like Victoria's Secret and Pepsi.
Choking an innocent man to death is legal if you're a cop.
shooting a child from the back is totally legal if its a black kid wearing a hoodie in a predominantly white neighborhood and the killer is white.
Native American women are disappearing and being murdered at alarmingly high rates but nothings being done and isn't treated like a big issue by law enforcement
Yes we can vote for our politicians but guess what the only options at our polls don't give a sh*t about what their constituents have to say. Thats why:
We've been bombing the Middle East left and right. We say we want to free the oppressed ppl and miraculously the land has oil as well.
We don't have free healthcare but instead we have the highest cost of healthcare in the world. Do you know an average hospital will charge a patient $27 for one acetaminophen pill that would cost like $10 for 100 pills at the regular pharmacy.
We have conservatives continuously and successfully passing legislation that is taking away the rights of queer people.
We have anti-semetic politicians saying Jews have space lasers and still keeping their jobs and getting re-elected.
We had a politician vote against a pro-lgbtq bill and then go attend his gay sons wedding the very next week.
Also the US censors it's contents too and even goes as far as manipulating content to fit the governments needs. Are you aware that the US gov't is working extremely hard to ban TikTok (the app with the greatest use amongst the younger generation) "bc its made in china". The gov't was recently exposed of filling Facebook and other sites with anti-vax propaganda to prevent China's vaccine from being used in Vietnam and a bunch of other SEA countries.
If you compare the actions of the US government to its own people in the past (chattel slavery, native American genocide) and now (police brutality, mistreatment of undocumented immigrants), the US IS NOT BETTER THAN DUBAI.
Also are you aware that most of the American housewives that you watched and financially helped by watching, voted for the political party that is actively trying to take away the rights of women and people of color.
tvline.com
another one with a horrific son! Some of those OC ladies were cursed with how their boys turned out
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