Three men were arrested Saturday after the gang rape of a Spanish tourist on a motorbike trip through India's remote east with her husband, local media reports said.
It’s not an unpopular opinion. What’s unpopular is the idea that I as an Australian, or you as an American, can do anything meaningful to change this. Or even that our governments can. They can and should provide some political pressure (possibly in the form of not doing photoshoots with India’s Prime Minister*—which should frankly already be the case based on a whole host of other human rights abuses), but when a country has such a huge internal cultural issue, you can’t expect external pressure to actually fix the problem. That has to come from within.
I’m very disappointed that this person deleted all of their comments because I am quite curious to know what bizarre arguments they were trying to make based on your responses.
Genuinely, I’m also disappointed that @Mastengwe@lemm.ee deleted their comments. But not for the reason you might think.
I have enormous respect for the argument they were presenting. It wasn’t one that I entirely agreed with, but it was coming from a good place, and honestly it helped me refine my own view and I ended up in a place that’s probably better than where I started. From memory, their tone might have been a little more argumentative than strictly necessary, but that’s hardly the worst thing in the world.
That is something that has the possibility of being immensely helpful, provided the cooperation of a substantial portion of the Indian population and the entirety of the Indian government. I truly wish there was something that could be done about from where I stand, but the problem is extremely ingrained and, in some ways, endemic to that culture.
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It’s not an unpopular opinion. What’s unpopular is the idea that I as an Australian, or you as an American, can do anything meaningful to change this. Or even that our governments can. They can and should provide some political pressure (possibly in the form of not doing photoshoots with India’s Prime Minister*—which should frankly already be the case based on a whole host of other human rights abuses), but when a country has such a huge internal cultural issue, you can’t expect external pressure to actually fix the problem. That has to come from within.
I’m very disappointed that this person deleted all of their comments because I am quite curious to know what bizarre arguments they were trying to make based on your responses.
Genuinely, I’m also disappointed that @Mastengwe@lemm.ee deleted their comments. But not for the reason you might think.
I have enormous respect for the argument they were presenting. It wasn’t one that I entirely agreed with, but it was coming from a good place, and honestly it helped me refine my own view and I ended up in a place that’s probably better than where I started. From memory, their tone might have been a little more argumentative than strictly necessary, but that’s hardly the worst thing in the world.
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That is something that has the possibility of being immensely helpful, provided the cooperation of a substantial portion of the Indian population and the entirety of the Indian government. I truly wish there was something that could be done about from where I stand, but the problem is extremely ingrained and, in some ways, endemic to that culture.
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