When the Taliban regained control over Afghanistan,
they wanted to reassure the world that they're a new Taliban.
They're not gonna do all the things that they did before cracking down on a number
of different civil rights and in particular on women's rights.
And along the way, as we've updated you month by month,
that has been proven to not be the case.
It's gotten even worse in the last week with the Taliban ordering Afghan female
news anchors to cover their faces while on air, they say this is final and
non negotiable.
Only several news stations complied, but now the Ministry of Vice and
Virtue always a good sign in the country when you have a Ministry of Vice and
Virtue has begun enforcing the mandate and
almost all female anchors have their faces covered while on air.
Initially some reporters had resisted the mandate.
One Sonia Niazi says we resisted and were against wearing a mask.
But TOLOnews was pressured and told that any female presenter appeared on screen
without covering her face must be given some other job or simply removed.
Seeing your face is a fireable offense.
We do have this.
Some of the men at the station have gone mask as a sign of solidarity.
You can see that in this clip.
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>> [FOREIGN].
>> So just to make sure that, you know the comparison in Afghanistan,
the men are willingly wearing masks to show solidarity with women
who are having their rights stripped away here in America, men won't wear masks to
literally save the lives of themselves and their family members.
JR what do you think?
>> Yeah, I mean it seems like this, it shows of solidarity that the point of it
then would be to highlight the problems with this or
the ridiculousness of this type of thing because we get caught up in normalcy,
what we think is normal and we can't have a woman show her face on camera because
it goes back to the Barnes and Noble's conversation.
Why if you ask them, so why not?
And they'll say, you know, God told us to and everything, but why what's then it's
gonna happen to the viewing public or their head's gonna explode.
Are they gonna all rush to the station and want to get a closer glimpse of her nose?
It's the logic has to be shown and put on full display and
most people are kind of afraid to because then again, the authoritarian wings of
these types of groups will scare people into not speaking up for not acting up.
Sounds a little bit familiar, right?
Because we may implement these types of things and
we say they're just based on Christian values.
But isn't that the same thing groups like this say?
And yet we still say we're better than them.
And we said, yeah, the eastern religion it sucks but the western one is superior.
It's the same approach.
It's just some are more severe than others.
And then as we work our way towards that severity,
we might find ourselves in that same place.
So the ally ship and people actually showing this up is actually what's needed
and we needed earlier than what they now have to do in this particular situation
with the Taliban.
>> Yeah, exactly.
No, you're right.
It's the same thing.
It is just men who are to their very core.
Like you can break open their bones, there's no marrow in there, there's just
weakness, and fear, and ignorance and being terrified of women above all else.
I mean, they're scared of a lot of stuff.
Women and any other race similar.
They're very scared of that.
But they're especially scared of women, terrified of them.
Especially of them working the idea that they might be independent, that they might
have interests outside of a relationship with these incredibly weak ignorant men.
And the Taliban do not have a monopoly on male weakness.
You can see it every day in American media, American politics, it's everywhere.
And it is the thing that is holding us back most as a society.
>> Damn John, weakness replaces bone marrow, that's a great line.
You should write a book.
>> For boys.
Anyway, with that to stop some of the weakness and ignorance.
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