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Funny how the women's rights situation in Iran became bad enough to prompt large scale protests within two weeks of Iran joining SCO. Not two months earlier. No
by unity1001 4y ago
Funny how the women's rights situation in Iran became bad enough to prompt large scale protests within two weeks of Iran joining SCO. Not two months earlier. Not two months later. Just within weeks.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoSCO? The country code for Scotland? The Santa Cruz Operation? What's SCO in this context? My (30 seconds of) searching turned up nothing plausible.
- danielvf 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisat... (Though I'm fairly sure the protests are unrelated)
- alberto_ol 4y agotry to search "iran join sco"
- pvaldes 4y agoI was thinking in South Colorado. Is a common problem with specialists using acronyms in a conversation for a wider audience.
- danielvf 4y agoThis is the sixth occurrence of major protests in Iran in in five years.
- computerfriend 4y agoYeah, murdering a woman for not wearing her hijab properly is just a western plot. Iranians can't possibly have any agency. Is that what you're saying?
- anvic 4y agoSurely it's not the first or the last time that this has happened or will happen again. I can smell the glowies from a thousand miles away.
- computerfriend 4y agoYou're just smelling what you want to smell.
- unity1001 4y agoPeople were being murdered for not wearing their hijab last year. The year before. The year before that. Why didn't large scale 'spontaneous' protests erupt at any point in that time period but instead happened right within 2 weeks of SCO membership... > Iranians can't possibly have any agency. Is that what you're saying? As someone who grew up in a country that had experienced FOUR US backed coups, multiple 'spontaneous people's movements' of the same nature, yes. That's precisely what Im saying. The agency that the locals have in such situations is co-opted and subverted by the source that organizes the protests, leaving only a husk of their original intention represented by various symbolism and paraphernalia. The resulting government NEVER does anything in line with the original protests. The policies are always privatizing the nation's resources, setting up US bases, borrowing more from US-controlled financial institutions, reduction of labor protections, deregulation. The same ills that plague the US. Even if one is not a student of geopolitics or has no knowledge of recent political history, he or she can easily tell who backed such a regime change operation by the resulting policies.