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Decuriarch t1_j94jwp0 wrote

Reply to comment by OrangeUnlikely3928 in US envoy apologises for ‘inappropriate’ tweets about Afghan women by upvote-for-rights

Some of these people are so far up their own asses it's ridiculous, they have no connection with reality at all.

"Have they tried non-violent sit ins?" What the fuck? This is a country where girls have had acid thrown in their faces merely for attending school. There are videos of women being shot in the street when the crackdowns against women first began after the US pulled out.

Not to mention as a diplomat to Afghanistan she should know how incredibly racist Afghanistan is before saying they should take inspiration from black people in America. I worked extensively with Afghanis and had grown ass men refuse to sit next to a woman in their office because her skin was too dark, she looked Indian and they didn't want to sit next to a black woman. And they called her a slut because she wore jeans. They also refused to sit next to a man from the North because he looked Chinese. And then she tags Beyonce in her tweet?

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Batcraft10 t1_j94jw7a wrote

Reply to Deep sea mining disrupt whale songs by tandemuis365

Hopefully we can figure out space mining soon. I know it’s still pretty far off, but hopefully I can see it in my lifetime and it replaces some of the shit we’re doing here…

Until we find out we’ve been destroying some space animals habitat, but that’ll be like 10,000 years from now.

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snoofling t1_j93qw6q wrote

Reply to US envoy apologises for ‘inappropriate’ tweets about Afghan women by upvote-for-rights

The kind of oppression and circumstances that Afghan women and Black women face are completely different. This sort of glib comparison - from a senior diplomat, that too - is really the epitome of American exceptionalism (defining your country's experiences as universal and being unable to comprehend the idea that they might not be so)

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autotldr t1_j93dk1e wrote

Reply to US envoy apologises for ‘inappropriate’ tweets about Afghan women by upvote-for-rights

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot)

> WASHINGTON: The top US diplomat to Afghanistan apologised on Thursday for tweets that suggested struggling Afghan women might find inspiration in African American history and culture, particularly the #BlackGirlMagic social media movement.

> US envoy Karen Decker tweeted that several of her posts earlier in the week went "Awry" despite her "Best intentions" when she suggested Afghan women could learn from examples such as pop culture icons Beyonce and Lizzo.

> In a series of tweets over several days, Decker - who has had multiple postings in Afghanistan dating as far back as 2006 - evoked themes from Black History Month in relation to Afghanistan and Afghan women.

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