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Another L for bigotry (europe.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Tehran in the 1970s would have been a beautiful way to show how modern lifestyles and islamic culture could co-exist, much in the same way that Christianity was treated in the West all the way up to 2015.

Ah well, I guess there's still Istanbul, and I guess the West can still potentially pull themselves away from the right-wing christian fundamentalism they're currently embracing

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah this worries me a lot at the minute. There's a concerted effort to push christianity back in front of the levers of power and it disgusts me. I mean, have you ever tried to read the bible? It's complete nonsense (nonce-sense?).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Tehran in the 1970s would have been a beautiful way to show how modern lifestyles and islamic culture could co-exist

    Celebrating the Shah's Iran for it's secularism is a bit like celebrating Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for it's capitalism.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I thought that happened in '79

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    The Shah of Iran couped the democratic government in 1953 and enacted a brutal military dictatorship that was not overthrown until '79.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    oh, sorry. I just saw some hippie photos from the 70s and assumed it was a liberal/secular place around then until 79

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    It's a big country. There's corners that are still liberal/secular today and there's corners that have never been.

    But there's a hagiography around the dictatorship that suggests a few women in bikinis on the beach represented the entire social state of the Shah's reign. You don't see pictures of the torture dungeons or the armed insurgents or the clashes between police and civilians published regularly in Western media.

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