old_chelmsfordian t1_j42gnvv wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Cricket Australia pull out of Afghanistan ODI series over Taliban restrictions on Women's freedoms. by LexiFloof
> why did they play Afghanistan in 2018? Why in 2015?
Because at the time the Afghan National Government was cooperating with the west, and while still deeply flawed was allowing girls to go to school and university and get jobs. There was even a certain amount of democratic legitimacy to the Afghan government under Karzai and Ghani. They even had a women's cricket team which were playing international matches.
The cricket team was perceived to be representing that government.
The Taliban have reversed all of these things, so it's not surprising sporting organisations are changing their stance.
Edit: And in 1999 it wasn't even legal to play cricket on Afghanistan so I doubt they were playing many other nations at the time. The Afghan Cricket Board was actually based over the border in Pakistan until 2000 so it was out of the reach of the Taliban
middleagedstudent t1_j455d9u wrote
The sheer hypocrisy when people pretend the west isn't worse 🤣
MrRabbit7 t1_j44k5hp wrote
The important and only point is they were western puppets.
That's it. Everything else is just hogwash.
Yuo_cna_Raed_Tihs t1_j45kagv wrote
Doing the whole western puppets spiel isn't very sympathetic when the facts are that while western puppet, women had rights, and once they're not a western puppet, women did not have rights.
If that's the difference between being a western puppet or not I'd happily support all of the global south becoming western puppets
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