What a terrible day to be literate and be able to read into the ugly belly of self-righteousness disguised as morality.
Obviously there's humanity and real lives everywhere, she's just advocating for those lives to be valued. With, ya know, human rights protected by the government.
There are genuinely bad places in the world even factoring out "American exceptionalism/egocentrism". Dubai seems to be one of them.
Are there moralities worth entertaining that place no value on human life or its enslavement?
The take here is very much Brave New World, going to visit the savages, and complaining about it. And then contrasting it with the "normal" sterilized life that the author leads.
It is neither self righteousness or morality: It is an abject lack of self awareness and of sheltered existence.