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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” (newrepublic.com)

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On Piers Morgan Uncensored, Schlapp was part of a panel discussion about the war in Iran and the bombing of the girls’ school that killed an estimated 175 people (nearly all young children). Journalist Peter Beinart argued to host Morgan that the United States and Israel were to blame even if the school was somehow hit by an Iranian missile.

“We know that if the U.S. and Israel had not attacked a country that poses no serious threat to them—Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, America has thousands—that those girls would be alive,” Beinart said. Schlapp immediately jumped in.

“They’d be alive in a burqa,” Schlapp said, adding “this is … a barbaric society,” before Morgan cut in and asked him to “hang on.”

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Is the Iranian regime totalitarian and ruthless, especially to women? Yes.

Totalitarianism as a concept was invented after WWII to equivalate fascism & communism. It’s anticommunist agitprop, a product of the Cold War.

No one’s going to deny that the Islamic Republic of Iran isn’t a model for gender equality, but 1) it’s not as bad as what our government & media claim, and 2) the only reason you bring it up at all is because of the last 25 years of Western propaganda, which began the moment its comprador Sha was overthrown. There are plenty of other states with worse treatment of women that our government & media seldom mention, because they’re not thorns in the side of imperialist states.

You’re doing the women being bombed right now no favors by parroting the bombers’ propaganda. It’s same bone-headed logic as condemning Hamas in the middle of a genocide.