[Daishiman]

This is all very good but like most articles written by Westerners ignorant of 19th and 20th-century history it completely forgoes the part where European colonialism did everything in its power to remove progressive governments, generate division amongst any clans that could have possibly aspired to modern identities, and sabotaged anyone who could have posed a thread to Western interests who, coincidentally, we some of the most educated and promising elites of the Middle East.

Really just another fluff piece about how great and smart us in the West are while we carry the weight of millions of corpses in Africa, the Middle East, and even Europe.

[jackvalentine]

The author’s father is Pakistani, for what it’s worth.

[Daishiman]

And? Being a child of immigrants doesn't mean your opinion on the place of origin of your family can be any good.

[eszed]

That argument is anticipated in the article.

[Daishiman]

And it has no real rebuttal. It's all "over here in the West we were better". Completely ignores the role of functional progressive states and how the West shitted all over them during critical times because it wasn't in their interests.