I prefer the third: engaging with ideas while calling out on the humbuggery of human rights imperialism. In the case of the ‘whataboutery’ the present administration is indulging in, it involved letting domestic convulsions get in the way of foreign policy imperatives. If effective foreign policy involves neither total give nor total take, hence, these guys want all take no give. Brazil, a country known for “serious human rights violations”, led by a right wing militarist allied with the US, voted for the resolution and against us. Now, what does that tell us about the politics of human rights?

Source: The Nation April 04, 2021 00:45 UTC