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Liberal Tears Over Trump’s Victory

“Liberals are losing their minds and blaming Muslim, Arab, and anti-genocide voters for the outcome. They refuse to take the responsibility.” "Liberals jump for 'women's rights' but refuse to listen to the voices of Palestinian women who suffer under the occupation.”  Liberals, and a few conservatives, have waged a jihad ‘to save Muslim women from brown Muslim men’ in Afghanistan and Syria (think Yazidi women, for example), LGBT people in the MENA region, the ban on the headscarf in France, etc. now they can see how Palestinian women have been liberated once and for all: we have less of oppressed Muslim women wearing the headscarf. What the IDF has achieved in a year, Western missionaries and liberal jihadist have been unable to achieve in decades. Expand: liberals and capitalist exploitation, dispossession, racism, etc. Related Martin Kettle on the Guardian  blames the voters “Kettle cannot hold back on his bitterness toward US voters - a very liberal take on the Demo...

Women, Workers and Dis/Empowerment in Saudi Arabia

“[T]he Saudi state has been globally  celebrated , including by international  institutions . And this is no surprise – the gender reforms announced by the state, and formulated with the help of  consultancy firms , largely align with the United Nation’s  women’s empowerment agenda , which adopts a liberal model of gender equality that works to include ambitious women within the existing capitalist order, leaving its structural inequalities intact. What is obvious from these celebratory accounts is that gender reforms in Saudi Arabia are almost always discussed only in relation to  Saudi  women, rendering their implications for non-citizens invisible.” As of 2022 more than  foreign female servants and house cleaners alone numbered more than 1 million . “ This calls for a broader reflection on what emancipatory possibilities are foreclosed by liberal feminist justice frameworks that seek autonomy and equality for some, within unequal structures, rather ...