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Original URL: World leaders abandoning human rights: Amnesty
World leaders are undermining human rights for millions of people with regressive policies and hate-filled rhetoric, but their actions have ignited global protest movements in response, a rights group said.
US President Donald Trump, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and China's President Xi Jinping were among a number of politicians who rolled out regressive policies in 2017, according to Amnesty International's annual human rights report published on Thursday.
The human rights body also mentioned the leaders of Egypt, the Philippines and Venezuela.
"The spectres of hatred and fear now loom large in world affairs, and we have few governments standing up for human rights in these disturbing times," Salil Shetty, Amnesty's secretary-general, said.
"Instead, leaders such as el-Sisi, Duterte, Maduro, Putin, Trump and Xi are callously undermining the rights of millions."
[...] The regressive approach to human rights adopted by a number of world leaders has, however, inspired new waves of social activism and protest, Amnesty said, highlighting the example of the Women's March in January last year, which began in the US before becoming a global protest.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by arcz on Saturday February 24 2018, @06:37PM (6 children)
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @07:08PM (5 children)
Double standard. You want to let people discriminate based on their own opinions, but trying to balance that by using legal discrimination is bad? I'm not sure how what would be a better method to fix the problem, and I can only hope that soon enough we can remove affirmative action as it is no longer needed.
Maybe if the systemic racism in the US wasn't supported by people like you who vote in shitheads then we wouldn't be having this discussion. Nixon literally created the drug war as a covert culture war against blacks, mexicans, and liberals. Tons of cities have very racist policies, with such simple things as freeway offramps not being built for certain communities.
The reason liberals mock conservatives and treat call out racism is because it is a massive problem. It seems to be getting a little better with the new generations not buying into the hate of their parents, but we still get knee-jerk reactionaries like yourself who refuse to see the bigger picture. Come up with some alternatives to fix the problem of black kids not getting decent jobs due to the color of their skin and then you'll get respect and cooperation. Drone on about bootstraps and personal responsibility and get ignored.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Saturday February 24 2018, @09:36PM (1 child)
Liberals are not less racist than conservatives, judging by their actions. The real difference is that conservatives are a lot more honest about their prejudice. Non-whites are also not less racist than whites; the notion that only whites are racist is a great conceit that is misused for political purposes.
This is a great gift that Donald Trump has given the world: the shattering of a great many harmful illusions.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 25 2018, @08:26AM
I wonder what "actions" you're talking about, sounds like bullshit to me. Even if that was true then you could say that at least they're trying to do the right thing instead of celebrating their failure... Whether "non-whites" are racist or not is largely meaningless, they're not generally in a position to make decisions for others.
I'm sure you're just about as non-racist as your champion.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday February 25 2018, @12:19AM
It should be obvious that yes, that is worse because the second situation uses the instruments of the state to enforce your racism. It's Jim Crow law, not just a bunch of petty people with petty biases.
Which is a shame because that's a big part of what a healthy society needs. It is your and the grandparent's responsibility to stop screwing over your fellow people just because they happen to be the wrong race.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:01AM
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/flashback-morgan-freeman-ending-racism-stop-talking-about-it [cnsnews.com]
(Score: 1, Troll) by arcz on Thursday March 01 2018, @10:25PM