Before everyone goes out and gets all “gung-ho” about the legalization of rape in Afghanistan, let’s just remember one thing: America’s hands aren’t all that clean either.

Sure, America is an advanced nation. A nation full of educated people, living middle class lives, with a decent regard for the rights of all mankind. But America is far from perfect. And it sure isn’t without its own mistakes.

This country still disallows gay marriage and the absence of diversity is prevalent throughout many of America’s industries and organizations.

But those are just systemic problems, right? America would never outright legalize something that was in direct defiance of human rights?

Well, how about slavery and the disenfranchisement of black people?

I know what you’re going to say. Slavery hasn’t been around for over a hundred years. But what was America’s excuse then? America was a leader as an industrial nation, and yet they still had people pickin’ cotton and being bartered about as inanimate objects. And America allowed that to happen in the mist of a stable government, stable country, and stable people. Afghanistan on the other hand, certainly does not have a stable government, is corrupt with terrorism and it is far from being a national power. I’m not trying to justify their legalization of such a despicable act, but they have a better excuse than America did given their circumstances.

Some of you won’t like this slavery argument, purely on the fact that it happened so long ago in a non-modern era.

Okay.

How about the fact that there are black people alive today who witnessed hatred, bigotry, segregation, routine victimization, pillaging and the killing of black people…and it was all perfectly fine by our lawmakers!?

Look, once again, I’m not justifying Afghanistan legalizing marital rape, and I’m not making excuses for it. All I’m saying is that before we start judging the entire nation as a people, let’s remember what America did in its dark past, in a country that was more at liberty to correct itself than almost any other nation in the world.

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