…of the leftist feminist movement:
The trust-fund ladies and their friends in Hollywood go to Iran talk to hand-picked Iranians while their “travel handlers,” who are plain-clothed Revolutionary Guards, assigned by the regime, are watching every move people make and every word they utter to the visitors. The ladies of leisure take publicity photos in the mandatory Islamic robes and head covers and come home to talk about their visit to the “exotic Islamic third world.” Iranian women call them “Cultural Imperialists.”
Cultural Imperialists attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, praising the woman selected by the Islamic regime, but they will not utter one word of support for the real activists, the women who are in prisons, getting tortured and hanged, trying to take back their place among the respected people in the world.
It is a fact that the feminist American culture, the culture of Hollywood, is one of the major issues that Islamists like Khomeini, Bin Laden, Hezbollah, the Muslim brotherhood, and the Taliban have against America and the West. But this culture supports the Islamists by its silence and indifference to the issue of human rights. The Stoning of Soraya M. should have received many academy awards, many Cannes awards, and many movie reviews. It is the least this culture can do for the Iranian women suffering to gain the same human rights that American feminists exploit.
What can you do, though, when you live in the second-worst country in the history of the world? Be thankful you don’t live in Israel, I guess.
Or being shot in the chest from rooftops for the crime of leaving their car because it’s stuck in traffic and is overheating.
Sorry, “Cultural Imperialists” doesn’t do it. They’re enablers with blood on their hands.
I don’t know that I believe the culture deserves simply to die off. That culture is like parents, and even bad parents are better than no parents at all (except perhaps very very bad parents). To abandon culture is to abandon just one one upbringing, but to abandon upbringing itself; that is not a context in which a person can thrive.