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98% of women in Somalia are sexually mutilated. Guess what Somalis are doing in France to their little girls? That s right: they re mutilating them.

But I take it 98% of Somalis women getting sexually mutilated in Somalia is the fault of colonization or something?

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I mean, it’s drawing a _bit_ of a long bow, but there’s a pretty cogent argument to be made that European powers in many nations funded/armed criminal gangs (by buying slaves/selling weapons), and those gangs took over the country with that backing, which destroyed what public institutions existed, and normalised “strongman coercion”.

There’s various points and counterpoints within that and I’m woefully ill equipped to evaluate them, but it’s not wrong “prima fasciae”.

Blanket accusations like this are racist. Genital mutilation is an abhorrent practice. While the impact is uniquely horrible for women, it is definitely "throwing stones in glass houses" to act as though it's a strange cultural practice to damage the nerves of a child's genitals, a practice done to millions of boys in Europe by those of multi-generational European descent.

Now, you could be opposed to both practices of course, but you are choosing to make a blanket accusation to suit a point of view.

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