Dnia czwartek, 7 maja 2015 08:53:00 Shelley pisze:
On May 7, 2015 7:12:21 AM dan@geer.org wrote:
As usual, cpunks is descending into some sort of whirlpool of itchy grudges, but I think the most interesting tweet of the
last month was this one: It's ridiculous that even though US President is black, still such crimes agnst US blacks continue to occur. #BlackLivesMatter #FreddieGray
Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) April 26, 2015
Think about that for a minute, perhaps replacing "black" with "Shia" or "Han" or "obnoxious mailing list trolls" and, well...
--dan
Don't they still imprison (or worse) LGBT folk & dissidents there? One tweet does not an ayatollah redeem.
Why do we conflate "redemption" with "right to criticize"? Khamenei has a point, but trhat does not in any way suddenly make Iran a great place. I can criticize Russia at the same time I criticize USA. For some reason, though, when I do the latter, I gat an overwhelmingly positive response, while the former brings in an overwhelmingly negative one. As if criticizing Russia was supporting the US. -_-' Sorry about that, just a beef I have... -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147