Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya

[Aimless]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...-idUSKCN1BH04F

Sigh.

[Dreadnaught]

It's worse.

Nonsense, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the worst conflict in the world and it deserves the mandatory attention of every UK university student for at least three hours per week.

The top democracy dataset in poli sci just updated their democracy scores for the entire world, and they rated Myanmar a democracy, with the same score as the US. People, even smart people, really have their heads in the sand on this.

Jesus

I mean, I get the whole "reward progress" thing but what happened to "punish regression" thing?

[Loki]

Jesus

I mean, I get the whole "reward progress" thing but what happened to "punish regression" thing?

I'm guessing it was coded by someone with little knowledge of the place and who got their news entirely from American sources.

[wiggin]

I'm guessing it was coded by someone with little knowledge of the place and who got their news entirely from American sources.

Any even remotely well-informed American who read any reputable news source would know about Myanmar. I recognize that the vast majority of Americans don't quality as 'remotely well informed', but one would hope that someone putting together a poli sci dataset might be in the minority.