Iraq and Kuwait are backsliding - but so are other hate-filled parts of the world

I wonder if Australia's Foreign Minister will respond to this? 

Kuwait has banned a movie because of one actor (not the portrayed character) being nonbinary, and Iraq has decided to enforce slurs that have been known to be wrong since the 1950s.

I have trouble considering this deplorable action in Iraq to be the fault of the US-led invasion and occupation: it is the action of bigots - and I suspect, as with other backsliding nations (especially the USA), a relatively small number. 

On the USA, the haters celebrated the murder of a trans person. 

Nearly as bad is the behaviour of police regarding sexual assault victims: why? What is wrong with them that they breach their own guidelines to indulge in behaviour that is clearly intimidatory? Or do they not think crowding a sexual assault victim on a low couch with larger males in close proximity is not intimidatory? I would have extreme difficult believing them if they say they don’t. 

As it is, police have also forced the community they are supposed to be serving into a massive payout to one the police’s victims, and are dragging their heels on obeying a court order. 

What is wrong with them? They’re not serving us, the community - which includes LGBTQIASB+ people and First Peoples & people of colour ... I think the police are focused on serving the elites, which is embodied in the oath of at least one state’s police to a monarch. 

Above all else, however, these problems show the problem of officialdom failing to challenge neoliberalism and hate.

So ... Foreign Minister and all Police/Women/Inclusion Ministers: what are you going to do?

 

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