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DreadPirateRoberts on 10 August 2018
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EricHiggin said:
DreadPirateRoberts said:

On the bolded: No, we aren't.  No matter how much you may wish us to be otherwise, Alberta is still more progressive than most of the United States overall, and in particular, the American south.

On the rest: This isn't just Canada poking Saudi Arabia about the women of the middle east.  This is Canada standing up for a Canadian citizen who has been detained by Saudi Arabia for the crime of being a woman with an opinion.  You can be quite certain consular and government officials have been involved in this case doing far more than just sending tweets.

So if I decide to go for a hiking trip throughout SA and end up stranded in the desert, hanging on for dear life, Canada will have no problem bashing the SA Gov because they aloud this to happen?

You think when I'm asked why I went for a hiking trip alone in the desert in SA, and I respond with, 'because I am Canadian, which makes me special, so I figured I could just go anywhere and do anything and assumed everything would work out just fine', would be an acceptable excuse?

If this Canadian citizen went there protesting, then they obviously knew the details and what could happen, so they now need to deal with the consequences, just like I would for being such a moron. This would be like walking up to a black person and calling them the 'N' word to their face, and then completely blaming them for knocking out your teeth.

Why is it that the farther into to the right wing people go, the more likely it is that they argue in false equivalence?  Your hiking argument has no relevance to anything we're discussing. It is, frankly, an idiotic distraction.

However, if you were in Saudi Arabia and were detained, then yes, Canadian consular officials would advocate on your behalf and work to ensure you are treated fairly. Even if you went there protesting.  That's one of their duties, after all.   Also, please do educate yourself.  What she is protesting is the human rights violating torture and punishment the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is visiting upon relatives of hers.  She didn't just go for a lark.