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Chess tournaments are a great place for citizens of brutal regimes to defect ...
Is it? Why?
Quite a number of Soviet chess players defected while attending tournaments abroad.
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I think that the protestors want as much support as possible. If you take the risk to protest then you want your allies and supporters to cheer you on.
Except this movement was not started by the protestors on the ground. It was started by protestors on twitter, some of whom spread false news to exacerbate the situation.
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Yeah this is stupid and blatantly sexist. Used to live by a lot of Muslim immigrants and the boys had no covering but then you have 6yo girls that are covered head to toe. Just guessing but that is going to mess with kids body-image and cause lots of psychological problems in the future.
I am not defending hijab, but your point about “body image” and “psychological problems” sounds odd to me. It seems to me that westerners, especially women, have way more body image issues than people in my Muslim home country. I don’t know if it’s the revealing clothing or the worship of youth. But it seems disingenuous to complain that someone else’s culture is going to cause body image issues when in your culture…
I’d guess the body image issues & mental health kinda play second fiddle to the fact that in a lot of Muslim countries you can legally beat the shit out of your wife and then rape and impregnate her…
Just as long as that stays in Afghanistan and isn’t imported to the developed world we’re all good lol.