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Human rights fatigue : Comments

By Keith Suter, published 8/1/2019

Now there is a new mentality: people are more complacent. The post-war generation of human rights activists are dying off.

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The author may be correct in the points he makes however the omission of the abuse of the idea of human rights in my view plays a major role in any fatigue for human rights.

When definitions are manipulated to suit political agenda's rather than basic protections, when "human rights" are used as weapon to try and control the words and free choice of others based on feelings people begin to smell the dead rat.

The idea of country shopping has already been mentioned.
Compelled speech for gender pronoun's is another especially concerning abuse of human rights. The part's of the me-too movement that have treated as some kind of human rights abuse men continuing to attempt to pursue women after a rebuttal in an era when "Playing hard to get" was very much a thing is part of the tiredness.

The list could go on and on but if the author is not addressing the role misuse of "human rights" as a political tool/weapon than in my view he either does not understand the issue or is so blinkered in an ideology that he is missing a big part of the picture.

I don't think our understanding of the horrors of the past is helped by the abandon some toss the word Nazi around at those they disagree with nor by our largely ignoring the horrors which occurred in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere during the last century.

R0bert
Posted by R0bert, Saturday, 12 January 2019 1:45:16 PM
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our largely ignoring the horrors which occurred in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere during the last century.
R0bert,
That's due to the Poms & Yanks not flogging the movie industry to death like they did/do about Germany.
Compassion is a funny thing because only those in cozy jobs & cozy homes exploit it to make themselves feel good. Ask those with 9 bedroom homes in the fancy suburbs to take in some refugees instead of telling us all the time to donate. Senator Hanson-Young has told us many times we need to help refugees, anyone ever see her helping anyone ?
Posted by individual, Saturday, 12 January 2019 5:20:06 PM
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Another thought to revive Hunan rights is to have biographies read that were in the depths of constration camps, or in other government scantioned abuses from any country.

If real harm is read about then those who read it will stand against that kind of harm. Human rights will fight against the real fights instead of fighting for whether or not a person wants to call themself a boy or a girl, and to get everyone to join in. (Note there is no abuse that is going on in that sitution, just someone complaining that they aren't getting their way).
Posted by Not_Now.Soon, Monday, 14 January 2019 4:59:36 AM
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Many humans simply can't be helped ! The more help is coming their way the more they expect more for less.
The situation will not change until the instinct of discipline makes a comeback.
Posted by individual, Monday, 14 January 2019 7:47:04 AM
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