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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: 2, Offtopic) by khallow on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:08AM (4 children)
What's wrong with justice that one has to add an adjective like "social" to it?
"Social" is Orwellian in how it perverts the meaning of words. Social justice isn't justice. The social contract is not a contract. Social awareness is not awareness. Social security isn't security.
Moving on:
And here's an example. You couldn't even use the phrase in your very next paragraph. It had already lost its utility. You instead spoke of justice instead of social justice.
Because obviously, only people who are suffering from super-wealthy adulation would ever disagree with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:22AM (3 children)
Yeah...what's wrong with plain old Justice? Why are you so afraid of real justice? Is it because in a just world you would have to prove your worth?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 21 2018, @06:36AM (2 children)
Well, the obvious rebuttal is, um, well, OK, there is no obvious rebuttal to Social Justice. Unless it is Social Injustice. But the US tried that before, and, well, black lives matter? Are you a fcking racist, khallow? Or just a victim of white priviledge? In either case, stand down you moron.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:02AM
Self rebuttal if you were paying attention.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:33AM