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kcr

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7. People ARE fighting against it here

Sat Mar 20, 2021, 10:46 AM

Mar 2021

We will always be fighting it here. Which is why I find the argument that we don't have the moral ground to fight it elsewhere reprehensible. We have moral authority because we are human beings, and there are human beings suffering elsewhere. That is it. If the condition is we can only fight it when we've achieved perfection, then it will never happen. Is it the fact that Ted Cruz said it that makes it wrong? China IS horrible in its abuses. We're supposed to just ignore it? I'm sorry, but that's wrong.

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The U.S. has no moral authority on lecturing other countries on human rights abuses [View all] USAFRetired_Liberal Mar 2021 OP

Part of rejoining the global community means taking these stands Mike 03 Mar 2021 #1

moral leadership llashram Mar 2021 #3

People ARE fighting against it here kcr Mar 2021 #7

ted cruz llashram Mar 2021 #13

+10000 BannonsLiver Mar 2021 #12

+1 treestar Mar 2021 #15

You can feel free to not care then n/t kcr Mar 2021 #2

You are on full ignore USAFRetired_Liberal Mar 2021 #4

Oh, no! n/t kcr Mar 2021 #5

That is the absolute truth malaise Mar 2021 #6

Since there is no country that is clean on human rights ripcord Mar 2021 #8

I guess my OP should have been and could have been clearer USAFRetired_Liberal Mar 2021 #9

you could not llashram Mar 2021 #16

I guess my OP should have been and could have been clearer USAFRetired_Liberal Mar 2021 #10

There is plenty of hypocracy around ripcord Mar 2021 #11

It does treestar Mar 2021 #14