Showing posts with label un is no longer a force for good. Show all posts
Showing posts with label un is no longer a force for good. Show all posts

Friday 8 December 2023

It's No Such Thing...

...and we should frankly welcome it:
Merely to state that biological sex matters could be enough to confer this disgrace.

You might call it a disgrace, we should look on it as a badge on honour. 

Yesterday it was reported that Britain might soon be expelled from the UN's 'Human Rights Council' because our own Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has previously recommended that single-sex spaces should be protected according to a person's physical sex rather than their more nebulous 'gender identity'.

Wait a minute, what value does it hold anyway?

Following complaints against the EHRC from trans-rights groups — including Stonewall — a process has begun that could see the EHRC's ranking by the UN slip below that of comparable organisations in such bastions of liberty as Palestine and Zimbabwe, leaving us on a par with Libya and Venezuela. We would be, in short, a pariah.

*shrugs*

Its 'Human Rights Council', so ready to censure Britain over whether trans women should enter female changing rooms, has members from the notably liberal regimes of China, Cuba and Pakistan. Only a few weeks ago, it appointed Iranian diplomat Ali Bahreini to chair its 'Social Forum' in Geneva. Bahreini is the representative of a savage theocracy that hangs gay people, executes protesters and deploys its squads of moral guardians to beat up women who refuse to wear the burka.

Exactly! Why should we want to belong to a club that has such members anyway? 

Friday 6 January 2023

Let's Spin The Wheel Of Racism Once More...

...where will it land?

Wha..?

In a last intervention before the end of her tenure...
Well, there's a relief, I guess...
...Achiume said meaningful solutions to the ecological crisis were not possible without tackling racism. But in a bleak assessment of the prospects for the future of humanity, she admitted it was “difficult to imagine” how that message could be made to resonate with people holding power.

 Pretty difficult to get it to resonate with me, and I don't hold any...

“You can’t think that you solve the climate crisis and then attend to racial justice or racial discrimination,” Achiume said.

 Can you break for lunch first?

“What you have to realise is that every action that is taken in relation to ecological crisis – environmental, climate and otherwise – has racial justice implications, and so every action becomes a site of undoing racial subordination.”

Sure, sure...say, can I borrow that hammer? I've a nail right here I need to fix.