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by Fraterkes 330 days ago
Many of her critiscisms of Dubai have been well documented. Is she utterly wrong? Educate me
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zetanor 330 days ago
The problem is not factuality. The problem is assuming that the entire World should now and forever be judged through the moral lens of post-war America.
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the_af 330 days ago
Dubai seems like the peak of inequality and ostentatious luxury even to those of us who don't live in America (I assume you mean "the US", not the Americas).

There are genuinely bad places in the world even factoring out "American exceptionalism/egocentrism". Dubai seems to be one of them.

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euroclear 329 days ago
I don't think that the author is American. Their X profile [1] seems to indicate that they are British.

[1] https://x.com/caitdoherty

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ordinaryradical 329 days ago
Whose morality counts?

Are there moralities worth entertaining that place no value on human life or its enslavement?

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