Tag: human rights
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“I wish all Russians to die!” People are evil
When the media are showing horrible crimes of child rapists or murderers, people cannot compete in who is more evil. They want to inflict the worst possible pain on the culprit. But when it comes to my favorite dichotomy “us/them”, people unleash their animalistic instincts whether it is the Israeli-Hamas conflict (the humanitarian catastrophe respectively)…
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Israel as the democracy in the Middle East? I don’t think so
Some people present the Israeli political system as a democracy. And the only one in the Middle East. Given the fact no other country in the world maintains the biggest open-air prison in the world (the Israeli-occupied territories) believing in Israel’s democratic principles suddenly disappears. Torture in Israeli prisons is systemic, there is limited freedom…
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USA’s double standard – China and India
India is a flawed democracy with enormously deep-seated corruption. Torture is widespread in the prison system. Yet, what does really bother the US government? Yes, corruption (not the corporate one because they stand for corporations). But look closely at the US’ criticism of China. Right, they criticize everything they can. Because investing is very difficult…
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The selective human rights enforcement by the USA
Human rights consist of democratic freedoms, freedom of speaking, and economic rights. The US only cares about democratic freedom and freedom of speaking. Why not the economic rights? Because it doesn’t serve its purpose. They want the countries to be democracies in order to be able to invest in them more. Of course, there are…
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The US debacle: The majority of the world population lives in countries with robust systemic torture in prisons
The USA always says they do things only to improve human rights all around the whole world. But it is business as usual. There isn’t a prison system that wouldn’t be abusing human rights anywhere in the world. However, there are systems where torture and wrongdoings are much more prevalent. Denailing, bone-breaking, waterboarding, tooth extraction,…