Nah, we funded both Iran and the Taliban. We even elected a guy who illegally funneled weapon sales to Iran in order to take that money and give it to Nicaraguan death squads. Arguably, without US support, neither gets the critical mass it needs to effect regime change or become anything more than an upstart.
There are a lot of people that are capable of suppressing women without the US just fine. Just have q quick look at the Arabic peninsula, or the Taliban.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
bob_lemon@feddit.org 8 hours ago
The Taliban hated women long before being funded by the US, and hating women was not why they are funded. Same for the fundamentalist Iranian Muslims.
Them being in power (and the subsequent suffering of women) can be attributed to the US, but not them hating women per se.
I like hating on the US as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend they’re the source of all evil (only lots).
CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The women in the middle east weren’t nearly as suppressed before the US got involved
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This is Iran in the 1970s, before the US got involved.
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Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Wow, I’ve never seen this before. I don’t mean this in a derogatory way or anything, but they look like people.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s why iran has so many educated women and is weirdly technologically powerful for a theocratic regime. Iran in the 70s was modern. Inshallah the people of iran will be freed from the tyranny of theocracy.
But yeah, iran is what should scare you the most because their collapse was fast and unexpected.
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
They still are, they’re just people that are repressed by a theocracy now.
Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah, I know I just mean to say that nowadays they’ve had all of their humanity stripped away, they look more like machines than they do people.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Fuck man, imagine having like a doctorate and then being forced to become a stay at home brood wife. I hope the smart ones got out.