The State Department changed its mind about what it calls human rights. Reports on international human rights will be purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 5 个月前

The State Department changed its mind about what it calls human rights. Reports on international human rights will be purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net · 5 个月前

Human rights defenders say the cuts amount to an American retreat from its position as the world’s human rights watchdog.

SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net · 5 个月前

American retreat from its position as the world’s human rights watchdog.

America…human rights watchdog

ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net · 5 个月前

See, the human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay are fine because

SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net · 5 个月前

Surely this will mean they consider China to not be a evil aUtHoRitAriAn dictatorship with human rights abuses?

TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.net · edit-2 5 个月前

Lol, no, now they just will say ‘we have to do it, look who we are up against!’

Typical Jack Bauer shit.

Morbid [any, they/them]@hexbear.net · 5 个月前

Weird, I didn’t think they cared about being hypocrites

Leegh [he/him]@hexbear.net · 5 个月前

One of the best things about the Trump Presidency is that less and less people are starting to take America’s authority on “Human rights” not seriously anymore.

Gil Wanderley@lemmy.eco.br · 5 个月前

Fun fact, when Bolsonaro was president of Brazil and even during his campaign, he held the idea of “Human rights to righteous humans”, which, of course, actually meant “Human rights to the right (-wing) humans”.