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Okay hold the US government for aiding in Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses.

I don't know whether to cheer for things like this, though I do support works for improving human rights. For the most part they seem to be drops in the ocean of human rights abuse. And I don't know if it's doing anything to stop those abuses or just a control mechanism to make us feel like we are accomplishing something... while the biggest abusers and their supporters continue scot-free.




Human rights theater is better than no attention paid to human rights at all.

In particular the Helsinki Accords, which seemed empty when signed, seemed to wind up being influential a decade or so later. I've been sympathetic to human rights theater ever since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_Accords


We try to make push backs where we can. You're right though. It does feel futile. It must be so frustrating to work in human rights.




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