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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: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday February 24 2018, @09:02PM (4 children)
Of course it is: What, you thought genetic evolution stopped?
OK, please answer me honestly: Have any of the short brown people in question actually taken anything of yours? Has their so-called "invasion" robbed you of land, stuff, or money? And assuming we're talking mostly about illegal immigrants, you can't claim it's via your taxes, because the only government support these folks get is meals and a cot while they're locked up in ICE detention facilities.
So, if the answer to that question is "no", and I strongly suspect it is, then what's the problem?
Again, do you actually have to share something you own? Did some people barge into your apartment or something? Or are you instead complaining about having to share something that doesn't actually belong to you, but you've decided is "yours", like the sidewalk?
So did they, unless you've somehow never eaten corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, curry, chick peas, falafel, or lots of other agricultural or culinary discoveries that originate south of the equator.
More to the point, isn't sharing knowledge between humans good for humans as a whole? How do Europeans or USAians benefit from having millions of people dying of cholera or Ebola in Africa? The people in these areas are also often doing the actual work of making the pills, building and installing the water purification equipment, etc. So again, no skin off your back, what's the problem?
I'm guessing you're making the mistake of thinking of everything that European/American civilization has come up with as belonging to you. Well, it's not. If you didn't create it, inherit it, buy it from somebody, or didn't even go to the effort of stealing it, it's not yours.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @09:28PM
Geography isn't your strong suit, is it?
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 25 2018, @02:41AM (2 children)
You're kinda rambling there.
What have the Mexicans taken from me, and my family? Job opportunities, primarily. Tax money and medical expenses, secondarily. And, we haven't even mentioned the violent crimes committed by illegals. Funny thing about those illegals - they don't respect the law very much. They'll become gang members, if they aren't already members when they came here. They deal in drugs, and prostitution. They commit tax fraud - what, you thought that all those illegals had their own social security numbers? Tax fraud, identity theft, and related crimes are committed by the best of the illegals. Our already broken medicaid/medicare and other medical programs are strained even further, thanks to illegals who don't pay their way.
https://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf [gao.gov]
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/07/nearly-2-billion-spent-jailing-illegal-immigrant-criminals-america-2014/ [nationalreview.com]
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/illegal-immigrants-account-107-billion-nation-s-health-care-costs-data-show [cnsnews.com]
https://www.newsmax.com/Finance/NealAsbury/Immigration-healthcare-illegal-emergency/2013/05/09/id/503579/ [newsmax.com]
For a moment, let's forget about what illegals cost us here, in the US. Do you have any idea what happens to an illegal alien in Mexico?
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/04/28/police-state-how-mexico-treats-illegal-aliens/ [michellemalkin.com]
https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/04/how-mexico-treats-illegal-aliens-michelle-malkin/ [nationalreview.com]
How does Mexico treat it's own minorities? Mosty by genocide, of course.
http://genocidewatch.net/2013/03/21/country-profile-mexico/ [genocidewatch.net] Unfortunately, that article doesn't give more than passing mention of non-Mayan and non-Aztec indigenous people in Mexico - let me try to find something better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Mexico [wikipedia.org] Some interesting maps of indigenous populations, but again, little mention of genocidal practices against those indigenous peoples.
Ahhhh, here we go - http://minorityrights.org/minorities/indigenous-peoples-4/ [minorityrights.org]
When you have digested that, get back to me. What? You thought that Mexicans were just good, loving, progressive people, who would share their own food, and the shirts off of their backs with an oppressed people? Absorb their treatment of minorities in their own home, then consider again their motivation for coming here.
La Raza isn't the Boy Scouts.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 25 2018, @03:22AM (1 child)
Has it occurred to you that the illegals wouldn't be "stealing jobs" if it weren't for all those big companies, Smithfield for example, "hiring" them?
Let's not be stupid here: NEITHER party TRULY wants to stop illegal immigration, because it's a source of near-slave labor and drives prices and overheads way the hell down. If you want to bitch about job-stealing illegals, bitch about the corrupt, greedy, borderline-treasonous sonsabicthes who keep fucking HIRING THEM.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 25 2018, @04:02AM
Exactly - and we're back to a statement that I've made before:
The purpose of NAFTA was to destroy Mexico's economy, freeing up all of that unskilled labor to move north. Before NAFTA, that unskilled labor was more or less tied to the land. Being freed, where were they to go? Yes, of course, as you point out, the global economy expected them to move north.
Which only points out that we are all tools of the globalists. The progressives, the capitalists, the Mexicans - all of us.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.