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needcontainers | 11 months ago

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zfg|11 months ago

> The article frames Iran’s actions as repressive

In what way is the government monitoring and controlling what people wear not repressive?

moshin|11 months ago

It is, i agree, but what i believe the earlier commenter was alluding to was the fact that there are repressive governemnts enacting very similar laws that are hostile to women, and ethic minorities in a significant portion of western countries too.

the report/article seems to have a singular focus on demonising Iran and it's government.

google searches for "hijab ban", "muslim ban", "woman forced to remove hijab" yields a lot of results. And i'll add, it's not just hijabs; hoodies, skateboarders, rap music, masks, books? etc. have all been made skapegoats in recent times for authoritarian governments everywhere are trying to control individual liberties. Albeit in a different fashion, the government is trying to control the individual liberties of what an individual wears, reads, watches, listens to etc.