Super touchy Frenchman. Shit-all over everyone else, but someone looks at you funny and you lose your shit.

Also she’s not French, she’s from South Africa. Did you read the story?

Also you demand I show respect to a story, which I in no way disrespect. But then turn around and justify not respecting the Russian dead.…

So because their own government isn’t respecting them, they’re fair game? Awesome.

Sort of, most of the staff quit.

But Charlie Hebdo making caricatures of the Russian dead was OK? But French dead are sacred. Got it.

It was the late 90s:

I remember a 13 year old raped in mountainous Western Maryland in the 90s who ended up marrying the rapist under family pressure.

Except she did get ice and they did call the police. Just not in the tone she thought she deserved.

I’m confused. Does she think bouncers are social workers?

She’s this mad because they didn’t get her ice fast enough.

Where are you from?
Who do you care about?
Are we all just different types of savages?

Huh. Yup we’re all filthy savages that would murder each other for money.

People are murdered for i-Phones in the US as well. A violent robbery is the least of Nepal’s problems.
In place of stopping Nepalis from working in the Gulf would the West be willing to open European and American labor markets to Nepalis?

You have no idea what you are talking about. Speak to one of these people who you are so intent on saving and see how they respond.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re just parroting idiotic talking points.
Go to Nepal and suggest forbidding allowing Nepali workers to earn wages in the gulf. See how that goes down.
Other fun idea, go tell a retired Nepali Gulf laborer who has retired to his village and bought land and built a house…

I’m actually a South Asian (Pakistani). Those of us who live in South Asia realize that jobs in the Gulf are incredibly sought after by both the poor (oil laborers, construction workers) and educated elite (doctors, lawyers). The Arabs are rude and conservative and not-super social with us. But they pay us shit loads.
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The rate at which they die is the rate at which any given population dies. The study that was wildly cited in the Western media suggests that out of 6 million workers approximately 4,000 will die between now and 2022. That’s basically rate of mortality for a population.
The people who have died thus far are generally…

Its the same practice that the US uses to house and feed soldiers around the world. And these “slaves” are paid salaries that make their home states in India the three most successful by metrics of education, housing, health and nutrition in India.

Did the words Kerala, Bengal and Punjab trip you up? Because people who talk about slavery in the gulf generally have no idea who or what or where they are talking about.

I am talking about using the word slave to refer to Gulf guest workers. Whose legal conditions is identical to that of Turkish and Yugoslav guest-workers in Germany from 1945-1995.

People who are paid for their labor and who travel home to become the elite in rural Kerala, West Bengal and Punjab and whose incomes helped make those three states the three wealthiest states in India. Do you understand what slavery is?

Did you also know that Germany’s guest worker program made it impossible for…

As someone who actually teaches American undergrads Chait perfectly sums up how many young progressives are failing to learn to think critically about their own belief systems.
The response to this call for introspection has basically been the American left putting its hands over its ears and screaming LALALA as loud…