tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post5291203592555159720..comments2024-03-25T07:29:08.216-04:00Comments on 2 Political Junkies: Tribbing Full CircleMariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439330154875628083noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-31819099845444971692010-09-24T09:39:21.942-04:002010-09-24T09:39:21.942-04:00Actually, the layout of the op-ed piece is fairly ...Actually, the layout of the op-ed piece is fairly interesting. Mr Feulner is trying to distort the US submission to the HRC, by not indicating (as you say) that his two paragraphs are parts four and five (or 95 and 96) of a larger section, and indeed the second paragraph is a summation of a subsection. <br /><br />But Feulner suggests the paragraph concerning Arizona is slanted and very insulting, and that the combination of the two paragraphs is doubly so. Personally I don't see it, the two paragraphs strike me as a bland and cautious recitation of fact and mild intent. <br /><br />Feulner goes on to to complain that China and Cube are allowed to claim their societies are free, while the US is confessing sins he thinks we have not committed to the rest of the world. But that's the whole point, isn't it? The US continually holds itself up as a superior example of freedom and democracy to the rest of the world. Yet we were born a slave-holding nation, we dragged our feet on granting women the vote, and we have had very public battles and continuing problems with racial, gender and sexual choice discrimination. <br /><br />If we want to be able to criticize other countries about their records on human rights and democracy, we need to come clean on our own record to have any legitimacy. We have certainly never done anything like genocide, but enslaving a whole race in the past, currently having that racial group disproportionately suffer economically and continuing to discriminate against gays in the military? It is not a beam, but it is maybe a bit more than a mote in our (collective) eye, one we should acknowledge before commenting on the ocular status of other countries.EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.com