I dont mean places that are like ragingly anticommunist (which is most places I think), but they have like appalling social issues. Say like UAE or any of the Gulf states that use slave labor and indentured servitude on a mass scale. Like would you say visiting dubai or doha is morally questionable? A friend is offering to visit Muscat cuz there are cheap flights but I dont know if I should. Or are there ways I can ameliorate my staying there, like maybe giving money to some orgs or something. Idk what do you think
I had a High School teacher who went to Saudi Arabia as part of some sort of scheme to increase Saudi/American relations.
He was a pretty cool guy and gave an honest opinion on the country and ran some pretty good classes on the middle east. I was in his philosophy club. Also his name was Mr. Cash and he had a magnificent beard.
He’s introduced me to Howard Zinn, and was one of the first people to get me to read theory.
So not everyone who visited SA is a jerk, just the vast majority of them.
The war nerd guy also taught in SA