This is the side fauxgressives tacitly support in Yemen ...

[Derec]

Amnesty: Yemen's Houthis must release model fearing 'virginity testing'

Twenty-year-old Yemeni Intisar al-Hammadi was arrested in February at a checkpoint in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi group in Yemen's six-year conflict.
A judicial source previously told Reuters she had been charged with carrying out an indecent act and going against Islamic principles.
"Intisar al-Hammadi has regularly appeared in photographs online including in social media posts, without a headscarf defying strict societal norms in Yemen," Amnesty said.

I have not seen any US feminists condemn this. Squad members are silent as well.

 

[Patooka]

I didn't know everyone is obligated to support a side in the Yemen clusterfuck. Huh. I guess I have to unconditionally support Saudi Arabia like Derec does. Sorry, I wasn't aware.

Also, should we be worried that the squad has yet to condemn commercialized cannibalism? Does that mean they support it tacitly as well? On a personal note, I condemn donkey fucking but please don't read too much into the fact that I've said nothing about goat fucking one way or the other.

 

[none]

fuck them in the ass, haven't you seen film?

 

[bigfield]

"These progressives are only pretending to be progressives because they haven't condemned this specific instance of injustice! They don't really care about the mistreatment of women in the Arab world! Neither do I, but that's beside the point!"

 

[J842P]

Amnesty: Yemen's Houthis must release model fearing 'virginity testing'

Twenty-year-old Yemeni Intisar al-Hammadi was arrested in February at a checkpoint in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi group in Yemen's six-year conflict.
A judicial source previously told Reuters she had been charged with carrying out an indecent act and going against Islamic principles.
"Intisar al-Hammadi has regularly appeared in photographs online including in social media posts, without a headscarf defying strict societal norms in Yemen," Amnesty said.

I have not seen any US feminists condemn this. Squad members are silent as well.

Lol. Come on Derec. The other side is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Support for personal rights and freedoms isn't exactly the axis of discernment here.

 

[Jokodo]

Amnesty: Yemen's Houthis must release model fearing 'virginity testing'

Twenty-year-old Yemeni Intisar al-Hammadi was arrested in February at a checkpoint in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi group in Yemen's six-year conflict.
A judicial source previously told Reuters she had been charged with carrying out an indecent act and going against Islamic principles.
"Intisar al-Hammadi has regularly appeared in photographs online including in social media posts, without a headscarf defying strict societal norms in Yemen," Amnesty said.

I have not seen any US feminists condemn this. Squad members are silent as well.

So if you are not in favour of throwing billions of military aid at the kingdom of Saudi fucking Arabia, you are tacitly supporting whoever they want dead?

Are you in favour of arming the Bloods? Then why are you supporting the Crips?

 

[Patooka]

I'm curious as to why, with all the people who have yet to publicly condemn this human rights violation in Yemen (Hare Krishnas, the British Royal Family, Disney, the Welsh Choir, Wanna One, ABC Rural Radio and Hugh Jackman to name a few), Derec feels compelled to specifically critique feminists and the Squad only. It's so odd.

 

[Jarhyn]

I didn't know everyone is obligated to support a side in the Yemen clusterfuck. Huh. I guess I have to unconditionally support Saudi Arabia like Derec does. Sorry, I wasn't aware.

Also, should we be worried that the squad has yet to condemn commercialized cannibalism? Does that mean they support it tacitly as well? On a personal note, I condemn donkey fucking but please don't read too much into the fact that I've said nothing about goat fucking one way or the other.

To be fair, if the topic was on goat fucking, I'd solicit an opinion from you, and expect it to be in line with whatever other anti-animal-fucking position you may have, as per "Rationalism".

But unlike many here, I have some suspicion that you would actually deliver on consistent application.

With regards to Yemen... Don't know enough about it other than to know we have a situation where a powerful country is shit wrecking a less powerful country.

As for what I suspect as a viable solution... Both sides need to chill, and a third party needs to go in and build out educational, energy, and transit infrastructure so that the people there can move on. That won't happen as long as Saudis are bombing them. That much is clear.

 

[laughing dog]

The use of very minor incidents for "gotcha" OPs is rather juvenile and, very often, hypocritical.

My guess is the most "faux progressives" did not even know about this. I thank Derec for breaking this to the forefront. The linked article has much more interesting and salient material such as

Yemen has consistently been at the bottom of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap index......The Houthi de facto authorities have a deplorable track record of arbitrarily detaining people on baseless charges – to silence or punish critics, activists, journalists and members of religious minorities – as well as subjecting them to torture and other forms of ill-treatment," said Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, Lynn Maalouf

. that somehow escaped mention.

 

[Politesse]

Which "Fauxgressives" do, in fact, support the Houthis?

 

[none]

the NRA has some activity in Yemen... at one point, maybe even a an office.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

There is no good side in Yemen. If I had to choose I would side with Saudi Arabia over Iran but it's very definitely a hold-your-nose type choice. Both sides are vile.

 

[Gospel]

There is no good side in Yemen. If I had to choose I would side with Saudi Arabia over Iran but it's very definitely a hold-your-nose type choice. Both sides are vile.

If I had a choice between eating dogshit at Table A or dogshit at Table B, I'd walk out of the restaurant.

 

[lpetrich]

Amnesty: Yemen's Houthis must release model fearing 'virginity testing'

Twenty-year-old Yemeni Intisar al-Hammadi was arrested in February at a checkpoint in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi group in Yemen's six-year conflict.
A judicial source previously told Reuters she had been charged with carrying out an indecent act and going against Islamic principles.
"Intisar al-Hammadi has regularly appeared in photographs online including in social media posts, without a headscarf defying strict societal norms in Yemen," Amnesty said.

I have not seen any US feminists condemn this. Squad members are silent as well.

As if Saudi Arabia is a super feminist nation.

Even if that was the case, would that still justify that nation's war against the Houthis?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Amnesty: Yemen's Houthis must release model fearing 'virginity testing'

Twenty-year-old Yemeni Intisar al-Hammadi was arrested in February at a checkpoint in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi group in Yemen's six-year conflict.
A judicial source previously told Reuters she had been charged with carrying out an indecent act and going against Islamic principles.
"Intisar al-Hammadi has regularly appeared in photographs online including in social media posts, without a headscarf defying strict societal norms in Yemen," Amnesty said.

I have not seen any US feminists condemn this. Squad members are silent as well.

As if Saudi Arabia is a super feminist nation.

Even if that was the case, would that still justify that nation's war against the Houthis?

You realize the Houthis are an Iran-sponsored terrorist group that has basically taken over Yemen? This isn't Saudi Arabia vs Yemen, this is Saudi Arabia vs Iran in a proxy war in Yemen.

 

[J842P]

As if Saudi Arabia is a super feminist nation.

Even if that was the case, would that still justify that nation's war against the Houthis?

You realize the Houthis are an Iran-sponsored terrorist group that has basically taken over Yemen? This isn't Saudi Arabia vs Yemen, this is Saudi Arabia vs Iran in a proxy war in Yemen.

Yes, Loren. Everyone realizes this. People just don't share your preference for the Saudi's over the Iranians.

 

[laughing dog]

As if Saudi Arabia is a super feminist nation.

Even if that was the case, would that still justify that nation's war against the Houthis?

You realize the Houthis are an Iran-sponsored terrorist group that has basically taken over Yemen? This isn't Saudi Arabia vs Yemen, this is Saudi Arabia vs Iran in a proxy war in Yemen.

Do you have an actual point here? There is no logical or moral necessity to pick a side in this conflict.

 

[funinspace]

As if Saudi Arabia is a super feminist nation.

Even if that was the case, would that still justify that nation's war against the Houthis?

You realize the Houthis are an Iran-sponsored terrorist group that has basically taken over Yemen? This isn't Saudi Arabia vs Yemen, this is Saudi Arabia vs Iran in a proxy war in Yemen.

I am curious as to when you think a "terrorist group" is no longer a "terrorist group", but more rebels/government? How is/was ISIS not a SA-sponsored terrorist group?

Iran is largely just providing weapons to Yemeni Houthi's, which are doing their own fighting, versus SA which is bombing and blockading the physical area called Yemen while propping up the former dictator who abdicated then decided he wanted it back. Yes, it is also a proxy war between the 2 outside countries at a level.

 

[Elixir]

Which tribe of barbarians are you supporting today?

I'm just so confused. Every time I'm about to choose sides, the side I'm about to choose starts showing off their disregard for human life and/or human dignity.
If Derec would just say which bunch of backward savages he is endorsing, I could probably choose the other one, knowing it was the lesser evil.

 

[Politesse]

As if Saudi Arabia is a super feminist nation.

Even if that was the case, would that still justify that nation's war against the Houthis?

You realize the Houthis are an Iran-sponsored terrorist group that has basically taken over Yemen? This isn't Saudi Arabia vs Yemen, this is Saudi Arabia vs Iran in a proxy war in Yemen.

Are we supposed to consider proxy warfare a dire evil when Iran is doing it, and a virtue when we ourselves are doing it? I don't think anyone should be fighting colonialist wars in Yemen, but that most certainly includes us. We have less of a dog in this fight then Iran does, and no, they shouldn't be involved either, but they also obviously aren't going to stop providing arms to the Houthis as a result of our involvement in arming the Saudis, so how are our war profiteers supposedly doing any good for the Yemenis, or even for us? I'm glad we've largely withdrawn at this point, and think we should go all the way.