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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

they’re perfect happy (definitely not all of them) with their value and political system.

The way I see it, there are three groups in Afghanistan worth considering. The first is the group you referred to with that caveat: the people unhappy with their value and political system.

The second group is those who are "perfect happy" (sic) with systemic oppression. They've built an entire religion, an entire way of life predicated on oppressing themselves. Those people, being "perfectly happy" with oppression, will gladly welcome the opportunity to be oppressed themselves.

There's a third group of people. A small group. So small you didn't even see fit to mention them. Like the first group, this small group of people truly despises systemic oppression. They hate it. They know it is wrong, and they never want to be subjected to it. But, like the second group, they deliberately employ it. They actively and systemically oppress not just the "perfectly happy" second group, but also the first group.

I see no problem whatsoever oppressing people who are "perfectly happy" being oppressed. They will relish the opportunity at being oppressed into a fine pink mist.

I feel no ethical or moral compulsion to segregate the "perfectly happy" from the "hypocrites". I think they should be similarly mistified.