golovko21 t1_ivpj3sw wrote
Reply to comment by 1531C in US woman detained by Saudi officials after saying she has been trapped there since 2019 by hugglenugget
The difference is we say we're the best country in the world and flaunt our freedom yet go out of our way to make our country worse. We look at theocracies and think "I want some of that" and then go vote for candidates that would poll well in those countries too (obviously different religion same basic fundamentalist ideas though).
Marginalizing and controlling women
Bringing religion into government and schools
Persecuting and disenfranchising the LGBT+ community
Waging war on poor people and minorities
The list goes on. While we aren't yet at the extreme degree of Saudi Arabia or Iran. We can still be critical of our own country and people in hopes we don't look to these theocracies for inspiration.
hottlumpiaz t1_ivrljk5 wrote
san francisco and new york city being port cities are 3rd and 4th biggest hot spots in the world for human trafficking. a huge violation of human rights we tend to ignore
Stargos-2 t1_ivrzkev wrote
Does that stat also include consensual prostitution? I've been noticing that people are getting charged with human trafficking for paying for sex with a prostitute.
hottlumpiaz t1_ivs0q28 wrote
in the US. soliciting prostitution can get you charged for human trafficking yes. Because it's common for the more conventional human traffickers to bring in girls from Asia and Europe with legal visas with the promise of jobs and security but upon getting to the US have their passports and visas confiscated and the job is actually prostitution.
Stargos-2 t1_ivs1sbs wrote
It does skew the stats though when you include all prostitution. It's like when politicians say there's a 100,000 child kidnappings every year when they are counting all the times a parent reports another parent of violating a custody agreement.
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