Re:How Dubai became a model for free trade, openness and amb...
by coldtea on Sunday June 24, 2018 @06:25AM
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That's a valid point, but there are degrees of freedom.
You don't have to be a "paragon of human rights" to do better, or much better, than another country. And Dubai is pretty damn law by all standards.
That said, you do have a point in the hypocrisy of how not only some countries's citizens routinely paint something as uniquely outrageous despite the same or worse things going on in their countries (key word here being "uniquely", as in "look at what those savages do", or "this would never happen here at home").
But also on how some countries are praised by the same pundits (despite their abuses and absolute power) and others are condemned (because of theirs).
It's almost as if the concern is not with the abuses and power dynamics, but with the interests of the nations and the power elites that pay the journalist's salaries.
You don't have to be a "paragon of human rights" to do better, or much better, than another country. And Dubai is pretty damn law by all standards.
That said, you do have a point in the hypocrisy of how not only some countries's citizens routinely paint something as uniquely outrageous despite the same or worse things going on in their countries (key word here being "uniquely", as in "look at what those savages do", or "this would never happen here at home").
But also on how some countries are praised by the same pundits (despite their abuses and absolute power) and others are condemned (because of theirs).
It's almost as if the concern is not with the abuses and power dynamics, but with the interests of the nations and the power elites that pay the journalist's salaries.