Nobody is 'comparing' anything; so much as wondering why different standards are demanded by the doo·gooders, as between authorities of different traditions. Only answer I can come up with, I repeat, is racism; in the implied sense of "nothing better can be expected of those backward orientals, but decent westerners like us should know better". How else can one interpret these double standards?

I repeat: when the anti-cap-pun kneejerk collides with the anti-racist kneejerk, the result is a sort of blind-eye mental paralysis.

Anyone got any intellectual argument against this contention, other than tendentious *quasi-rhetorical questions?

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*Tho, treating Al's question at face value: I think the USA, overall, rather less vulnerable to obloquy in this particular than, eg, Saudi, Yemen, N Nigeria, et al [tho I would point out that "all right" was his formulation, not mine]...
Anyone disagree?