Thanks, Subail! Unfortunately, I think hundreds of years of slavery and colonialism teaches us that the west is only a moral benchmark in terms of how it treats its own citizens, and only sometimes. There are very obvious differences between the rights afforded most US and European citizens (free speech, right to assembly, right to anti-discrimination) and citizens elsewhere but I think we should remember that these rights are already limited and usually applied in discriminatory ways inside these states, while generally they are just hypocritical facades outside of them. It’s too easy for those of us on the inside (including myself) to assume that the privileges we enjoy are extended to others on the outside, but I’ve seen enough to know better!