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: 2, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:08AM (4 children)
So, Pratt, who invented the term "racism" was a genocidal sumbitch? In his world view, all Indian cultures had to be stamped out. Those Indians who conformed to white man's ways were permitted to live, whole those who refused were to be killed off. "Kill the Indian, save the man." Isn't that special?
So, liberals have embraced a term created by a genocidal monster, and made it their own. Again.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:41AM (3 children)
Notice how even the NPR story has to praise him for being "Progressive?" Because in the end, the Government schools we were all forced into are built on the exact same "Progressive" model. To stamp out our "wrong" culture and replace it with their "Progressive" one. Scratch a Democrat, find a totalitarian. Every. Time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @03:22AM (2 children)
Scratch a RWNJ and find green blood, you fuckers ain't human!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:15PM (1 child)
You stupid shit, that's not blood, that's chlorophyll. Solar power. It's the future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:01PM
Ah that makes sense, I always did think of jmorris as a bit of a vegetable.