Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
Yeah, you’re right, Russia isn’t assisting a genocide right now. I mean, they’re conducting their own, so that doesn’t count I guess (and that shit started in 2014). Qatar had the World Cup stadiums built with literal slave labour, and we really don’t want to talk about the general situation of human rights in these countries (it’s bad, really bad), but doesn’t matter because they’re not the US I guess.
As a Canadian, there is a small but nonzero chance that I would go to an event in the US, in normal times. These are not normal times, and I will not set foot in the country.
That is the difference between Qatar, Russia, and the US.
Just to clarify, by “that’s the difference” you don’t mean you’d travel to Qatar or Russia, but that the situation is new in the US but not new in Russia and Qatar, right?
Yeah, you’re right, Russia isn’t assisting a genocide right now. I mean, they’re conducting their own, so that doesn’t count I guess (and that shit started in 2014). Qatar had the World Cup stadiums built with literal slave labour, and we really don’t want to talk about the general situation of human rights in these countries (it’s bad, really bad), but doesn’t matter because they’re not the US I guess.
As a Canadian, there is a small but nonzero chance that I would go to an event in the US, in normal times. These are not normal times, and I will not set foot in the country.
That is the difference between Qatar, Russia, and the US.
Just to clarify, by “that’s the difference” you don’t mean you’d travel to Qatar or Russia, but that the situation is new in the US but not new in Russia and Qatar, right?
Correct.
Well, that’s weird.