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You also said "such an openly xenophobic way." I reject the idea that a) the framing is xenophobic in this case, and b) it needs to be framed more generally bef
by morelisp 4y ago
You also said "such an openly xenophobic way." I reject the idea that a) the framing is xenophobic in this case, and b) it needs to be framed more generally before we can fix this specific case.
- slg 4y agoFrom the article: >"We cannot afford to give our water away frankly to anyone, let alone the Saudis, for free," said Mayes. This person is saying that giving the water away to the Saudis is worse than just giving it away. It isn't simply the action of taking the water that is troubling them. It is that it is going to a scary other. This is classic xenophobia.
- morelisp 4y ago"Saudi" is not just a demonym like "German" or "Chinese" but a specific political program, and even a specific small set of extremely bad people. Fixing that would not make a "free Saudi Arabia of free Saudis" in the way we might imagine a "free Tibet of free Tibetans" but literally a different country not named after their psychopathic kings. It names a regime, not a nationality. It is not xenophobia to acknowledge it's worse to do something dumb which enriches your ideological and material enemies than to just do something dumb.
- seventhtiger 4y agoAs a Saudi, good job dehumanizing us.