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13 sentenced to death for homosexuality in Yemen
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This is from a Lebanese outlet. It's full of pretty exclusively middle east news, and publically makes clear its agenda. The article was submitted by a frequent poster of a wide variety of World News from all over, commonly human rights violations. This guy particularly upped his posting game after explicitly saying he should post more after another prominent poster decided to take a break.
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The houthi rebels are very anti queer so I assume the Yemeni and Saudi forces they're fighting against must be very pro queer. i will not be looking into this further or wondering why the geopolitical enemies of the US always face more media scrutiny.
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I'm pretty sure Saudi Arabia is anything but pro-queer.
They're being sarcastic. We'll beat the drums about the Houthis persecution because we want people to be angry at them (and thus supportive of greater military action), but the Saudis do the same thing (plus murder American journalists) and our presidents give them hugs.
Yikes.
You are right, but you are oversimplifying too. Pointing out human rights violations by enemy states has always been part of political propaganda, sure. However, this must not distract us from the seriousness of these human rights violations themselves.
To do what exactly? Are we going to then do the same thing to Saudi Arabia, where we actually have some moral entanglements and some ability to influence?
There's nothing someone in the West is supposed to do upon learning this fact. There's no aid to withdraw or vacations to cancel to try to influence them to be less horrible. The only leverage is war.
Why on earth are the ~~terrorist organizations~~US military trying to go to war in Yemen?