I'm normally very middle-of-the-road politically speaking, but Dubai is the sort of topic that briefly turns me into an unabashed communist. It's just wrong on every level - a slave-driven society has never looked so *tacky*.
Leader of Labour Scotland Anas Sarwar, standing in front of a giant Pakistani flag, telling a crowd that they need to take over councils, parliaments, political parties — even countries — so they can start deciding what’s taught in our schools. This isn’t multiculturalism. It’s sectarianism dressed up in a smart suit.
Porn culture is a problem but we cannot only look at the men as the main issue to finger point at but look at women as the main contributors to this problem.
Whether you like it or not, in our capitalist society the customer is king. This means, consistently, as a matter of principle, we ought to blame the consumer over the producer, to blame demand rather than supply. And in this context to blame the (mostly male) consumers of pornography and prostitution over the (mostly female) suppliers.
Maybe one day we will live in a society where people don't have to produce whatever other people want just to get by, even if that product is morally wrong. Maybe in that world we might be able to lay equal blame on the hookers and the johns. But that's not where we are right now.
I'm normally very middle-of-the-road politically speaking, but Dubai is the sort of topic that briefly turns me into an unabashed communist. It's just wrong on every level - a slave-driven society has never looked so *tacky*.
Leader of Labour Scotland Anas Sarwar, standing in front of a giant Pakistani flag, telling a crowd that they need to take over councils, parliaments, political parties — even countries — so they can start deciding what’s taught in our schools. This isn’t multiculturalism. It’s sectarianism dressed up in a smart suit.
https://substack.com/@darrengrimes/note/c-112696771?utm_medium=ios
I offer this with respect - and perhaps you have heard this from others - the phrase ‘Christian agnostic’ is an oxymoron.
Reading C S Lewis’ Mere Christianity offers some widely accepted understanding of what being ‘Christian’ entails at a minimum.
Porn culture is a problem but we cannot only look at the men as the main issue to finger point at but look at women as the main contributors to this problem.
Whether you like it or not, in our capitalist society the customer is king. This means, consistently, as a matter of principle, we ought to blame the consumer over the producer, to blame demand rather than supply. And in this context to blame the (mostly male) consumers of pornography and prostitution over the (mostly female) suppliers.
Maybe one day we will live in a society where people don't have to produce whatever other people want just to get by, even if that product is morally wrong. Maybe in that world we might be able to lay equal blame on the hookers and the johns. But that's not where we are right now.
If there is no product to sell, there wouldn’t be a buyer.
https://x.com/ThatAlexWoman/status/1879094197145469000
I blame it on both sides.