Re: Taliban hatred for women?

-----Original Message-----
From: Clint Ballinger

This is logical because before globalization and
colonialism when "places like Afghanistan" were so
much better off, women were treated so well.

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One finds an analog to this observation in lynching in the U.S. South.
Whenever there were substantial changes in the cotton economy, both
qualitatively (e.g. shifts in regional production) and quantitatively
(cyclical price flux), the level and intensity of race oppression changed.
It must be emphasized that the caste system was already in place prior to
shift and flux, so these changes only explain level and intensity, not why
blacks were oppressed to begin with. Oppression of women throughout the
world, as with oppression of blacks in the U.S., pre-exists the economic
changes that worsen their condition.

Andrew Austin