The Swedish government wants to make paying for sexual services online a criminal offense. The law could have global implications for online services and put creators at risk, warns Yigit Aydin. He fights for the rights of sex workers on behalf of the association ESWA.
  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    seems racist

    Wow. Please define “racist” for me, and show how it has anything to do with religion.

    How the heck do you get the idea that Swedish sexual morals would be defined by people thousands of kilometres away?

    Ok, you’ve just misunderstood me (no, this time it really wasn’t me being unclear, sorry).

    The “middle east religions” are Judaism, Christianity and Islam (I listed them in chronological order, please don’t be triggered again). Is the expression not in use where you live? Even so, how the hell did you think I could mean Islam? Why would I do it in such a roundabout way and using plural?

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      18 days ago

      You are the first person i came across referring to them as “Middle East religions”. This also seems quite strange, as Western Christian dominated countries do not refer to the Abrahamic religions as such. Then again what became of Christian in various places of the world has little to do with the region.

      Or do you consider modern beer to be Iraqi? Your computer as Babylonian text editor? Do you call the cash in your wallet Chinese money? Are the British just Saxons to you and the Germans, Czech, Polish and other Slavic people are just Indians anyways?

      • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        You are the first person i came across referring to them as “Middle East religions”.

        Fair enough :) I’ll take that as an apology for having labeled me as racists for no reason.

        For future reference, you might also hear “desert religions” (yeah, it’s not like all the deserts in the world are there) or “the three monotheist religions” (yeah, I know those are not the only ones): it means the same thing.

        Then again what became of Christian in various places of the world has little to do with the region.

        Yeah but the view on prostitution is shared (by and large) in the three religions we are talking about: it’s not a Christian-only thing and it’s not something that developed in Europe alone (well, as far as I know: we are still commenting on what I referred to as an assumption - ie. I’m not 100% sure about this).

        Or do you consider modern beer to be Iraqi?

        I could certainly say “IDK where beer comes from, I assume it’s from Mesopotamia?” though?

        I’ll leave it to you to re-read what I wrote originally and find the flaw if this last comment of yours.

        In reality, I guess I just made you angry… I’m Sorry about that, but “racist” is one of the very few things I don’t allow people to call me, so I took off my gloves.