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I can understand being optimistic about "Arab Spring" when it was starting, but what makes you think it helps your argument to use it now that we know how disas

I can understand being optimistic about "Arab Spring" when it was starting, but what makes you think it helps your argument to use it now that we know how disastrously it turned out? Yes, Tunisia is more democratic that it was before Arab Spring, but Tunisia still only scores at 5.51 on the Economist Intelligence Unit's democracy index (compared to 2.79 at the start of the Spring). (Mexico by comparison scores at 5.25.) More importantly, Tunisia's population (11.7 million Tunisians) is only about 1 or 2 percent of the Arab population, and more Arabs than that have been killed or made homeless by the unrest and the civil wars in Egypt, Yemen and Syria.

kanbara 3y ago
firstly, he said social change, not positive change secondly, why not champion the _potential_ for tools like twitter to act to release all of that energy -- just because arab spring didn't turn out as positive as people hoped, doesn't mean that that arab spring ii won't.
- hollerith 3y ago
  Me: at least 306,887 civilians killed (per United Nations) in the Syrian civil war with 6.7 million internally displaced & 6.6 million refugees. You: why not champion the potential for tools like twitter to act to release all of that energy?