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US leaving UN Human Rights Council -- 'a cesspool of political bias'
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down one day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable."
Speaking from the State Department, where she was joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley defended the move to withdraw from the council, saying US calls for reform were not heeded. "Human rights abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council," said Haley, listing US grievances with the body. "The world's most inhumane regimes continue to escape its scrutiny, and the council continues politicizing scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in its ranks."
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:26AM (8 children)
God I love how often your own citations backfire on you.
"Racism is a made up silly word that didn't even exist a few short decades ago"
So a few short decades does not make a century, and every single word humanity uses is "made up". You are a jackass, you are wrong, and "race realism"? Jesus, just admit your a bigoted piece of shit and maybe you can begin reconstructing your psyche.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by jmorris on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:41AM
The first ref was just to absolutely nail down the first use of the word. Notice from the second link that it was as quickly forgotten after that first utterance and didn't appear at all until around WWII and wasn't in common usage until the "Cultural Revolution" in the 1960's. That makes it a pretty new word to be the basis for our current State Religion.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:10AM (6 children)
Ten or twelve decades are indeed just a few short decades. As opposed to 200 decades ago, when the Romans still held power. Is there some power in the word century for you?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:15AM
Yes, when someone makes an assertion about some modern liberal conspiracy to use the word "racist" as some political tool for *reasons* and totally fails on the timeline.
I dont need to insult your intelligence though, you do a good enough job on your own.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday June 21 2018, @06:24AM (4 children)
I am only here to down-mod both the despicable jmorris, and the deplorable Runaway. They both know why. They are both products of the lack of choice by women, or that is to say, they are missed abortions. But that is pretty obvious from their posting. I sometimes think, that if jmorris, or Runaway, either of them, really, could develop the capacity for reason, you know, rational thought, and could go from accepted factes about the world, to the premise that one ought nought have sex outside one's own species? A bridge too far?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:13PM (3 children)
https://funnyjunk.com/Dr+trumps+butthurt+salve+and+cream/funny-pictures/6152734/ [funnyjunk.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @06:09PM (2 children)
I don't see any real butthurt going on here except from you. All the comments by jmorris and runaway on this thread have been pretty low quality and boil down to unsupported wailing about reality.
MUH OPPRESSIONZ! lawl, fookin twats
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 22 2018, @01:19AM (1 child)
What you see doesn't match up to reality.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday June 23 2018, @10:22PM
Sometimes, Runaway, the reality you think you are in is not the actual reality that is real all by itself.