Why are liberals "beaching" about this Brazilian rape case story?

Question

but when it comes to Saudi Arabia they like to stir up the crap that GWB is behind everything. Where is the outcry you tree hunging pot skokin Libs when it comes to this case? I did not see one Question from your side till to dat on this subject. Lol you guys are so hillarious!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/11/23/brazil.prison/index.html

Answer 1

Hey Baba, check this out of the article :

The case has sparked outrage among human rights groups as well as government officials.

Hell , 700,000 Iraqis died where the hell were these human rights groups ??!!

Answer 2

Due to the fact that there are thousands of injustices to protest in this world of 6 billion people and 200 nations, "conservatives" and "liberals" wind up ignoring most of them.

If we compare the two cases you're asking about, the Brazilian one is more shocking and the more unjust. I am not surprised it is the one getting the most international attention from "liberals" and human rights activists.

Here is the difference. The Saudi government did not cause the rapes, they were criminal acts that occurred on the streets. The government arrested, tried and sentenced the perpetrators as well as the victim. The Saudi court followed the laws of their country, and justice was done as to the rapists.

In contrast, Brazil government officials or employees either caused the rapes or recklessly created the conditions for repeated gang rape by putting a 15 year old girl in a jail cell with 20 male prisoners. When the power of a government is behind a crime against humanity, there is more cause for protest and action than when a government is following its own religious mandated laws.

Answer 3

And your point is?

You favor punishing this girl the same as the Saudis?

This same sort of incident has happened in the US as well and there is outrage aplenty in every case from the left, and usually a loud yawn from the right. Particularly if the women had somehow "asked for it" like getting arrested for theft in the first place.

That said, there is a special perversity in the Saudi case for making a victim of the victim for having been a victim in the first place. I find the Right Wing Religious Fundamentalist hatred of women astounding no matter what the details of their particular right wing religious fundamentalism.

That you would find some sort of situational ethics, that horrific behavior is only bad if you can find some political advantage in calling it out, and not actually bad if done by political allies is itself horrific behavior.

Answer 4

It seems like most folks find both cases pretty abhorrent. Your assertion to the contrary is incorrect. But then again it doesn't seem you have thought this out very well, does it?