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Just out of curiosity how much do you happen to know about what civil rights tier Pakistan is on?
by selimthegrim 2y ago
Just out of curiosity how much do you happen to know about what civil rights tier Pakistan is on?
- brickfaced 2y agoI'm familiar with their blasphemy laws for a start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_in_Pakistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_in_Pakistan
- selimthegrim 2y agoMy family is intimately familiar with them but I guess the larger point I was making is that the trends in the US have been following the Pakistani arc for quite a while. There’s not really a one-to-one comparison with the blasphemy laws. Probably a better comparison would be like child pornography, or something
- brickfaced 2y agoCan describe in detail how you, a Pakistani, think America should relax its child pornography laws?
- selimthegrim 2y agoI’m an American of Pak origin. My point was that blasphemers there (PK) are treated judicially and socially like child pornographers here when plenty of actual child porn over there goes unpunished. Asking people to amend those laws over there gets the exact same reaction you just had.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoQuite a lot. There was a big news story in 2023, which I followed pretty closely, where a popular ex-PM was ambushed in a courthouse by military forces before being arrested, tried, and imprisoned. He and his supporters believe, I think reasonably, that Pakistan should be understood as being in a state of undeclared martial law.