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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They probably got Trump's blessing on this one

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

more like age of coercion

[–] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At what age have you become sexually active?

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[–] wick@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a weird and arbitrary number. I wonder where they got it from.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Nothing to see here guys. All cultures are equal and thinking the West has a better way is colonialism

/s

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure the west and their settler colonialism massive resource extraction and so on is great. And its not like the many religious problems against say homosexuality in christian Africa can't be directly be blamed on christian missionaries. And its also not like poverty and brutal attacks on secular nationalists in the middle east in the name of fighting communism has anything to do with modern political Islam. No sir.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's quite some whataboutism. I'm clearly talking about the insanity of 9 year old girls being forced to wed..

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could have left colonialism out of it. You brought the western shit into the discussion. If you just said the west has better age of consent, everyone would agree.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I was making the point that it's currently popular to shit on the West exporting its ideals, but when it's something as blindingly obvious as "maybe 9 year old girls shouldn't be forced into marriage" then maybe on this one occasion that sense of superiority is well placed and necessary

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