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No, don't hold back Mahmud, tell us what you really think ..

• mahmud 18y ago
  What I think is this: People are full of shit, everywhere. I distrust faux-activism, any sort of righteous indignation, and I specifically distrust appeal to morality in the "collective". No group is better than any other group, long live the individual. So now, sho, can I roll you your own joint or do you wanna take drags from mine?
  • sho 18y ago
    Look, I mostly agree with you. I give a pretty short shrift to selective outrage and fickle talking-point moral indignation also. However, the fact remains, regardless of who raises the point, that the Dubai government is complicit in wide-spread, institutionalised abuse of its most vulnerable working class, and they should stop. Now are you going to argue with that, or perhaps claim that I have no standing due to the crimes of my distant ancestors and/or corrupt countrymen? Because I don't think that makes any difference at all. We consider every case on its merits. What BAE or whoever did was wrong and hopefully they will be held to account. That affects the current topic not a whit. Beyond that I don't even know what you're trying to say. That the world sucks and people are hypocrites? Well, yes, we can all take that as read, what's next? "Your words, as Westerners, are worth nothing." They are worth as much as anyone else's. What was that about the supremacy of the individual again?