Weird how the human rights record of Yemen is suddenly an important news topic right when the West is ramping up for military conflict with them. It must have just started, because otherwise this would be a cynical ploy to drum up support for war.
"Weird how when something is in the news, say for attacking civilian shipping in the most used sea lane in the world, it gets more scrutiny! I am going to attribute this to Imperialist Scheming(tm)"
The houthi rebels are very anti queer so I assume the Yemeni and Saudi forces they’re fighting against must be very pro queer. i will not be looking into this further or wondering why the geopolitical enemies of the US always face more media scrutiny.
They’re being sarcastic. We’ll beat the drums about the Houthis persecution because we want people to be angry at them (and thus supportive of greater military action), but the Saudis do the same thing (plus murder American journalists) and our presidents give them hugs.
You are right, but you are oversimplifying too. Pointing out human rights violations by enemy states has always been part of political propaganda, sure. However, this must not distract us from the seriousness of these human rights violations themselves.
To do what exactly? Are we going to then do the same thing to Saudi Arabia, where we actually have some moral entanglements and some ability to influence?
There’s nothing someone in the West is supposed to do upon learning this fact. There’s no aid to withdraw or vacations to cancel to try to influence them to be less horrible. The only leverage is war.
This is from a Lebanese outlet. It’s full of pretty exclusively middle east news, and publically makes clear its agenda. The article was submitted by a frequent poster of a wide variety of World News from all over, commonly human rights violations. This guy particularly upped his posting game after explicitly saying he should post more after another prominent poster decided to take a break.
Fucking horrific. This is 2024, and we’re still doing this shit? I have two - count 'em, two - LGBTQ+ kids, and I’m so goddamn glad we don’t live in a murderous shit-hole like that.
I’m not sure there’s any actual proof of this affiliation though, or whether this is the same sort of Israeli bullshit as we saw with the whole “UNRWA is Hamas” fiasco. I didn’t look too deep into it however so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well well … look at Netanyahu, pretending he gives a shit what happens to Palestinian children now, after murdering thousands of them in the last 5 months.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a) Killing members of the group;
b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. <-You Are Here
Israel’s objective is to “eliminate Hamas”, so they say. But that’s in the same sense as Putin’s effort to “denazify Ukraine”. If they released the hostages, it would be one less barrier to Israel carpet-bombing all of Gaza.
I’m absolutely for human rights. The human right, for example, to not be taken hostage and raped to death. But I guess you believe that human rights only exist for non-Israelis?
What I don’t understand is why you think that we could undo a terrible thing which happened to one innocent group of people by doing terrible things to another group of innocent people. This only perpetuates the cycle of violence and the only winners are those who build weapons.
It also completely ignores ~80+ years of violent oppression and occupation perpetrated against the Palestinian people… But yeah let’s just pretend that they’re all just savage monsters and their attack last fall was completely unprovoked.
If we had a real true place to actually like, banish the ones who really couldn’t be taught to not be you know, like sadistic killers or some crazy CRAZY stuff I would totally agree with you. In a time where, say a benevolent AI could run an entire planet of habitual offenders of other’s rights and those people who (after repeated attempts at rehabilitation/therapy/education with all the correct and most up-to-date science about (whichever field in question)) can’t function in society without hurting other people can go BE. away from me then yes
I’d like to hope for a world where every affliction could be unlearned, or perhaps there is an environment where that kind of behavior can be tolerated (metamorphosis of prime intellect style)
But until then, on a finite planet, with individual beings… I’m not sure
EDIT: SHIT
Forgot where the heck I was and which post this was on. I got a little blazed and kept forgetting I was commenting this until I’d open my phone up.
NOT CONDONING THE FUCKING EXECUTION OF SOMEONE BASED ON WHAT HOLE THEY WANNA PLAY WITH
The problem people have with the death penalty isn’t that they disagree a serial child rapist should be executed. It’s that people get falsely sentenced. It happens, it always has happened, it always will happen.
This is true, but it also immediately ends the threat or risk of more damage by him. He can never have a prison break or be broken out of prison or anything because he is gone forever.
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