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Category Archives: Human Rights
America Bombs Three Iranian Nuclear Sites
Iran’s primary protest against Israeli and American attacks is that they violate international law. This shows weakness. If Iran had something more powerful to say, it would say it. If someone had sex with your wife or punched you in … Continue reading
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The Two-Tier Society aka Some Identities Are Sacred (8-11-24)
01:00 Kamala Harris’s trajectory, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORV3iWiLu408:00 Whoever was running Youtube in 2018 would have been forced to censor as Susan Wojcicki did, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki09:45 Do you support order or radical riots? 11:00 Expanding Rights For One Group Usually Comes At The Expense … Continue reading
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Expanding Rights For One Group Usually Comes At The Expense Of Other Groups
Why are some identities valorized and others despised? Eric Kaufman wrote Sep. 19, 2023: Wokeness is about making historically marginalized groups sacred. This religion reinforces an ideology I term “cultural socialism,” which holds that the highest aim of society is … Continue reading
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The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention
Prior to reading this book, I was unaware of any major players in human rights who were right-wing. Here are some highlights from this 2016 book by Marco Duranti: Conservative Europeanists invoked international human rights norms for different purposes. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
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Decoding The Winning Strategy Of The Palestinians (6-25-24)
01:00 What are real moral categories vs fake moral categories (racism, imperialism, sexist)02:00 Tucker interviews Steve Sailer, https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/180564801336218851807:00 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid21:20 NYT: Israeli Military Must Draft Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Supreme Court Rules, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/world/middleeast/israel-military-ultra-orthodox-jews-supreme-court.html39:00 Elliott Blatt joins with a juicy story 1:05:00 … Continue reading
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What’s Wrong With Human Rights? (6-23-24)
01:00 Every major religion regards masturbation as a sin02:40 The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtFJZB27M806:00 What’s wrong with human rights? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/whats-wrong-with-human-rights/14:00 Christopher Caldwell: Against Human Rights, https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-21/against-human-rights18:00 Christopher Caldwell: The E.U. Is Revealing Its True Identity. Europeans Don’t … Continue reading
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The Ethics of Violence: Recent Literature on the Creation of the Contemporary Regime of Law and War
Amanda Alexander writes in 2021: Abstract: This paper reviews a body of recent literature that interrogates the development and deployment of the contemporary regime of political violence. This literature includes Samuel Moyn’s account of the emergence and dominance of the … Continue reading
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Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter
Amanda Alexander writes in 2023: Abstract: This article traces the expansion of international law from the Hague Conventions, where only a state’s soldiers had legal status, to the contemporary understanding that international law governs all participants in conflict. This can … Continue reading
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Human rights – the key to all mythologies! (6-21-24)
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Narrative Contingency and International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against humanity in Cixin Liu’s post-humanist universe
Amanda Alexander writes: International humanitarian law (IHL) is the term which names, and also conceptualises, the current regime of the laws of war. The name belongs to a particular narrative about the history and purposes of this regime. In the … Continue reading
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