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Human rights fatigue : Comments
By Keith Suter, published 8/1/2019Now there is a new mentality: people are more complacent. The post-war generation of human rights activists are dying off.
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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