• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    So on the one hand, I didn’t read the article, and from the headline saying “Iraq amends bad law” I thought they are going from marrying 9 year olds to something more sensible, but they seem to be moving in the opposite direction. I was a moron, and I do apologize for that.

    On the other hand, I wasn’t saying any of this to make excuses for either the Islamic world or Iraq. It’s just that we also have so much shit to clean up on our own plate, that laughing at the Middle East seems counterprodctive as to me, it tries to relativize our own shittyness. I’m not saying that it’s not horrendous, but we can do precious little about it, while we can do much more about Hungarian oligarchs using orphanages as brothels (I’m sadly not making this up).