• MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    A salient reminder not to think that your privilege travels with you. When I was a kid (here in the UK), we had a news article of a young guy who’d been caught spray painting a wall in Singapore. He was sentenced to local punishment, negotiated down with heavy political pressure to just 10 lashes on the back with a stick.