If you think Saudi Arabia doesn't rely on modern slave labor I would urge you to learn more about their treatment of immigrants.
And there is simply no comparing the status of women in China or Russia to Saudi Arabia.
Combine that with Saudi Arabia's barbaric public beheadings and you're talking about a modern dystopia that many in the US would rather ignore out of convenience. Another common response is to distract from their crimes by hyping up other bogeymen in more direct competition with the US.
Qualifying state-level evil at these scales is invitation for bickering and reductionism. Saudi Arabia is indistinguishable enough from the most evil regimes in power today that one can have a reasonable argument about whether it belongs there. That sets it apart in degree from America and, I would argue, China, and in kind from Iceland or Canada.
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If you think Saudi Arabia doesn't rely on modern slave labor I would urge you to learn more about their treatment of immigrants.
And there is simply no comparing the status of women in China or Russia to Saudi Arabia.
Combine that with Saudi Arabia's barbaric public beheadings and you're talking about a modern dystopia that many in the US would rather ignore out of convenience. Another common response is to distract from their crimes by hyping up other bogeymen in more direct competition with the US.
Qualifying state-level evil at these scales is invitation for bickering and reductionism. Saudi Arabia is indistinguishable enough from the most evil regimes in power today that one can have a reasonable argument about whether it belongs there. That sets it apart in degree from America and, I would argue, China, and in kind from Iceland or Canada.
Public beheadings have to my knowledge stopped ... Should be on the level of USA now, with executions behind doors!