OK, so China may oppress and repress a number of its population in order to maintain the running of the country according to its current interpretation of Maoist ideology and, no doubt about it, it’s a sizeable number, with something like 3,000,000 people executed or ‘disappeared’ each year. However, tragic as that figure is, considering the size of the population, it ain’t all that.
How about if it were half of a nation’s population that were repressed and oppressed?
Not possible, is it?
How could that be kept concealed and managed on such a scale?
Surely someone would have to act; that’s abuse on a (half-)nationwide level! No way that that would be tolerated. It would be half of the nation, so outside assistance would surely come to aid their struggle for liberation, wouldn’t it? Well, yes, in the theoretical world I guess it would. But in the real world in which Saudi Arabia – supplier of much of the world’s oil and an adherent, proponent and enforcer of Islamic law – exists, sweet f.a. is done.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about already, I’ll tell you: the ritual oppression and humiliation of the entire female population, that’s what! And why is nothing done about it?
Fucking money!!!
And fucking religion!!!
Those two bastardions of much that is destructive in the world today.
But what can you do about it?
The money thing? Well, we’re all fucking hypocrites living off the back of an oil-based economy. Unless we can remove our own financial support for this economy, which would pretty much mean withdrawing from society in general, nothing’s going to change; why should it? And it’s not just the cars we use – oil lubricates in places we don’t imagine (oo-er, matron) – but everytime we get in a car or on a bus or on a plane, we’re fucking over a half (44.6%) of a country’s people, that’s 12,050,800 people.
And, of course the rest of the shit that’s done in order to maintain our fix of the black stuff, but that’s another story...
Of course, maybe more would be done to put pressure on such oil-supplying regimes to change if it weren’t for the second factor in the equation – the religion thing. Where to begin? I mean, doing something in the name of religion makes it all alright, doesn’t it? It does in the eyes of the religious of the world anyway, and I’m not just talking about Muslims here: religions stroke each other’s penises in order to maintain their stranglehold over their sheep and, therefore, tend to generally keep themselves to themselves. After all, if they debase one religion too much, which is essentially founded on the same bollocks, how long before even the blindest of the blind begin to see holes in their own little Christian/Jewish narrative? So a few – there must be a few, though I’ve seen precious little evidence of this – may bleat on a little about it, but only in terms of ‘how bad their religion is, so stay here with us where you’re safe’; they don’t actually do anything about it.
Who does?
The rest of us, who are either atheist, agnostic, non-practising or whatever? Well, we don’t say anything as we don’t understand religion and it would be wrong to criticise someone else’s faith.
Is it wrong?
Is it?
Is it wrong to speak out and maybe try and do something for people who can’t speak out for themselves due to the physical and metaphysical fear that they have lived with since birth?
Is it?
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