Our Human Rights Wasteland

 The U.S. State Department recently released its annual report on human rights.

The Biden administration pledged to make human rights a centerpiece of its foreign policy and the report is the scripture from which its new scolding foreign policy is preached.

The inhuman, merciless repressions of Tibetans and Uyghurs, the most egregious human rights violations of recent decades, are drowned out by a flood of offences related to newly declared "Rights." Most, perhaps all of these, deserve some level of attention.

The United States government, once the steadfast human rights leader on the global stage, boasts of the 2021 passage of the Xinjiang forced labor law as proof of its commitment to the human rights cause.

The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights toured China last year and returned quoting the Chinese Communist Party's own sound bites in defense of its repression in western China.

We don't have human rights strategists, we have human rights clerks.

Today serious investigative reporting is difficult to find, yet our policy pundits are always eager to shout about whatever new right is "Trending." If we hear about human rights, it is according to the loudest scripts on social media.

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