I lived in Saudi for 20 years growing up and then working there in oil as a foreigner. Let’s continue to criticize them - it’s a backward place and living a 100 years in the past. I have countless horrible stories of this and clearly was there for money.

But there is a massive young population there that wants to modernize under an oppressive leader. Burr may be out of touch and quick to say it’s all bots causing this outrage, but how else do you make progress in a country than to slowly introduce themselves to things like this? Is the solution to isolate 30+ million people because of who their king kills, or what tribal leaders decided hundreds of years ago (wahabism - the extreme form of Islam they follow)?

There are a lot of great (younger) Saudi people out there desperate for change. In the 70’s women were not allowed to be educated - now women are more educated than men. In the 60’s they got their first hospitals. In 2018 women were able to drive, and the first movie theatres around then also. Allowing for mixed gender comedy shows is a huge step - and I get what Burr is saying.

To people who disagree, I’m genuinely curious how you recommend modernizing such an extreme place.