The Deluded Idiot Women Of The West
Give women the same rights and freedoms men have -- and a life of ease (vastly less hardship than at any time in human history -- and you'll find a bunch of lipsticked gibbering idiots who take it for granted...and then some.

At Spiked, Brendan O'Neill writes, "Woke Westerners need to understand that the burqa is an oppressive garment, not an exotic fashion item":

You couldn't ask for better proof of the madness of wokeness. This week, as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, model, influencer and climate-change nagger Lily Cole posted photos of herself in a burqa on Instagram. Yes, as women across Afghanistan trembled at the swift victory of these 12th-century regressives, worrying what their lives will be like following the return to power of a movement that views women as an inferior species, a posh woke Westerner was donning the burqa for likes. 'Let's embrace diversity on every level', Ms Cole said in her post, as if this chilling blue cloak forced on Afghan women by Islamist brutes is little more than a quirky, exotic fashion item.

Diversity for Afghan women will likely turn out to be: You could be a sex slave, or you could be a sex slave, or some dude in a nightgown-as-daywear could murder you in some horrible way.

The fashion world, especially the model-turned-activist wing of it, is notoriously shallow and daft. But Cole's Taliban chic takes the biscuit. Here was a woman who enjoys all the freedoms and comforts of life in the West celebrating the shroud that is forced upon Afghan women to deprive them of any meaningful public presence or personality. Here was a woman who once made a living from having photos taken of her pretty face and her flowing red locks talking up the 'diversity' of a garment designed to erase women's faces and hide their sinful hair. You couldn't make it up - as images of female models on billboards in Kabul were being daubed over with white paint to avoid the wrath of Taliban militants, a former model in the woke West was lovingly embracing the Taliban's patriarchal dress code for women.

Ms Cole has now apologised for her post. She said she hasn't been reading the news and did not realise what was happening in Afghanistan (which is pretty extraordinary, especially for someone who's now a socially aware author or something).

Does she get her news from cartoons? Instagram influencer posts?

Of course, there's a bigger problem here than one former model's post on Instagram. This incident of woke madness really confirms what 'diversity' means these days - it means moral relativism. It means celebrating all cultures as equally valid and never being judgemental about any of them. In fact, the great thoughtcrime of our time is to make any kind of moral judgement, to suggest that one culture or idea might be superior to another. Witness the way the insult of 'Islamophobia' is wielded against anyone who criticises any aspect of Islam, or even Islamism, or the speed with which you will be cancelled if you say that being an actual women is a more real experience than being a trans woman. Such distinctions, such critical and moral analysis of identities and ideas, is not allowed these days. We must respect every culture - except the culture of critical, sometimes judgement-making public debate.

...Who will state the obvious - that the Taliban's view of how society should be organised and how women should be treated is morally inferior to our own?