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AsunasPersonalAsst t1_is4mmsx wrote
Crazy. If only we can Thanos snap the Iranian govt, or give a taste of their own medicine at least...
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vexpopped t1_is4mydg wrote
Why limit it like that? Just make it all who oppresse women's rights.
SockPuppet-57 t1_is4mzx3 wrote
Such Irony...
The people who believe in an invisible man who created the universe and is apparently very concerned about what we humans do with our lives think they're crazy for not believing.
AggregatedAggrevate OP t1_is4o4ap wrote
It really goes deeper than that, this isn’t really about religion or even Islam. But what the regime is doing is claiming that the women who want basic human rights/women’s right’s and are standing up for themselves, their country, and other women are insane; solely for wanting those rights. In other words, they’re trying to kill the movement by claiming these women clinically ill, and even more grotesque is how they’re treated in these mental institutions.
To me, this is as evil as the Russian’s mass rape campaign in Ukraine in what it’s trying to achieve; and correlates historically to women being given hysterectomies because of the belief that they were “hysterical”. I doubt men would be dealt with the same treatment which is further demeaning, because of how targeted of an approach this is.
It’s also important to note persian culture predates Islam and has a rich heritage and history of dominant women playing prominent societal roles - as a precursor to modern women’s equal rights.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1493/twelve-great-women-of-ancient-persia/
30twink-furywarr2886 t1_is4pmo0 wrote
So re-education camps… wow Iran… wow
Adventurous_Permit80 t1_is4zkrs wrote
i don't think they're the crazy ones
sarazorz27 t1_is50r14 wrote
There aren't enough facilities to hold them all. So what are they actually doing with them...
CowFish_among_COWS t1_is5687u wrote
Gaslighting world champions
Then_Campaign7264 t1_is576b8 wrote
There is a very long and dark history of medicalizing behavior that some group in power wants to control. It has occurred in most all cultures historically and continues in some to this day, as is the case in Iran.
This is a medical crime against humanity committed solely for the purpose of controlling not healing the “patients ”/ hostages.
JengaPlayer t1_is57u1c wrote
This is straight up disgusting. The trauma they are causing. Such an evil regime. They'll likely cause permanent psychological damage trying to misuse psychiatric drugs for their own purposes.
pegothejerk t1_is58ztl wrote
Reminds me of the push online and in conservative circles in the US to call all lgbtq and especially trans people mentally ill.
Memory_Less t1_is5aijs wrote
The horror of the thought of young people being taken to psychiatric hospitals is breathtaking!
Training_Purpose6640 t1_is5d4gr wrote
Welp, it seems they arent reaching at nothing.
Lets hope another tianamen doesnt happen at best.
Then_Campaign7264 t1_is5dd42 wrote
Medicalizing difference and dissent is a profoundly dangerous violation of human rights. It is particularly egregious because they are attempting to control and denigrate what they don’t understand or experience at a huge cost to the lgbtq community.
Outrageous_Garlic306 t1_is5gkp4 wrote
Just like the USSR used to do to their dissidents. No wonder they’re supplying weaponry to the Russians. Birds of a feather.
bearsheperd t1_is5lkx3 wrote
Read: “re-education camps”
Headless_Human t1_is5lynw wrote
Why limit it like that? Just make it all who oppresse human rights.
Painting_Agency t1_is5mgo8 wrote
And the USSR's use of psychiatry against dissidents, on the premise that opposing a worker's paradise obviously meant you were nuts.
Just more evidence of "horseshoe theory", or "authoritarianism doesn't care what it believes".
Painting_Agency t1_is5mr4e wrote
Putin et al. aren't communists, by a long shot. Iran obviously subscribe to the "two assholes" doctrine, ie. that they benefit from a world where there isn't just one unchallenged hegemonic power.
Expensive-Bet3493 t1_is5mrs0 wrote
They do this in the US too. I am a targeted individual along with possibly 100s of thousands of others being illegally and unethically profiled, terrorized and silenced for being an activist or just revealing the truths they want covered up. They call us crazy, delusional and seek to get us locked up in jail or a mental institution.
myaltaccount_3464 t1_is5nb7d wrote
Obviously women must be crazy for not wanting to be murdered by roving gangs of violent men for not making the right fashion choices.
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amateredanna t1_is5xz1n wrote
And drapetomania - the 1800s idea that slaves that tried to escape had to be mentally ill, because a sane slave would understand how good they had it.
When it comes to oppression, there really is nothing new under the sun.
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oddiseeus t1_is690lo wrote
Insanity goes a long way to explaining things when those in power want to dismiss and deflect blame away from the system they created.
sonoma4life t1_is6rlj4 wrote
that's the MAGA dream with all thier "liberalism is a mental disease" talk.
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markmevans t1_is7ar9u wrote
Religion poisons everything.
lionhart280 t1_is7zifj wrote
This is a classic play from the united states playbook not too long ago.
It was common practice for feminists to suddenly be declared having come down with a terrible case of "hysteria" back in the day, and get shipped off to wards to be lobotimized.
Same goes for basically anyone who dared come out publicly regarding being LGBT (Im leaving Q off in the case since, at the time, the "Q" part was uh... not so much as reclaimed at that point and just a straight up slur)
Doctors discovered that folks who didnt "fit in" with society perfectly could be simply lobotomized and silenced... so they just did it.
leftyscaevola t1_is8hj8i wrote
“The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-guns nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.”
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MalcolmLinair t1_is9634o wrote
There's no way they're not lobotomizing people, is there?
AggregatedAggrevate OP t1_is4ihn1 wrote
“As women burn headscarves and cut off their hair in nationwide protests, an Iranian official on Tuesday said that school students participating in street protests are being detained and taken to mental health institutions.”
Doesn’t get more sadistic than this - physical and psychological torture. Absolutely disgusting.