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In reply to the discussion: NAFTA at 20: One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Higher Income Inequality [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)arguments against TPP involve human rights, trafficking, access to medicines and other issues that have been leading in the organized opposition to this legislation but which is glaringly absent from DU. These are not issues that can be obscured with counter information, these are not matters of theory and debate, these are simple questions. But DU won't ask them, because the treatment of humans is not what concerns DUers. They care about their own money and political persons they like and don't like, that's it, that's all there is to it.
TPP seeks to give favored status to Brunei, a country which openly says it is putting anti gay laws in place to protect their culture from globalization, that is they are creating these laws so that they can enter TPP to profit while rejecting all questions of decency, equality or basic human rights. The Sultan and his family are exempted from the religious laws being put in place for everyone else.
If Brunei was doing to any other minority that which it is doing to LGBT, those who support it would not support it, they support it only because they do not see LGBT people as human beings.
People are starting to finally talk about Malaysia and human trafficking there, but Brunei goes without criticism even from those who are making lots of TPP criticisms. It's indicative of the problems LGBT people face, we have opponents but no actual allies.