ITT: People who don’t understand how fucking handsy and weird Turkish Culture is.
Also ITT people weirdly defending a leader so spoilt and self absorbed that they didn’t even to stop to think how bad it would look on the world stage before hitting out on a little kid for not making the scripted photo opportunity look perfect.
Sometimes you need to call out media sensationalism. That barely was a slap. It definitely wasn’t injurious, powerplay maybe, locally it may even be judged playful.
Western sensitivity doesn’t always translate well globally.
‘Western sensitivity’ get fucked mate
It’s honestly so funny how this is old news, settled peer reviewed behavioral research that conclusively states corporeal punishment is shit parenting used by shit parents that results in shit kids
And yet every time it comes up, legions of CHUDs crawl out of the woodwork to debate how it totally worked for them and their kids just fine
My favorite so far is that it’s not a shitty person’s behavior, it’s just *their culture*
When insecurity is so deep, a forced, fake display is preferable to the real wonder of a real human, child no less.
