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eissa

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8. I'm a progressive and I'm outraged

Reply to Rustyeye77 (Original post)

Tue May 2, 2017, 12:13 PM

May 2017

I don't think it's fair to say there isn't outrage among us. I think most of us understand that the UN has become an irrelevant institution that couldn't organize a two-man parade if their life depended on it. Placing a sick country like SA on the human right's commission was a shock, but on the women's panel is just plain mockery. Fuck all of them.

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How (the F**K) was Saudi Arabia Voted onto a UN Womens Panel? [View all] Rustyeye77 May 2017 OP

The same way they have been on human rights panels. nycbos May 2017 #1

I dont think its PC Rustyeye77 May 2017 #3

Oppressive assholes. That's my name for Saudi Arabia. n/t SpankMe May 2017 #2

More or less the same way PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #4

Because the United Nations is essentially a collection of nationstates. David__77 May 2017 #5

Very oppressive toward women. This is the 1st film made in Saudia Arabia... Equinox Moon May 2017 #6

It's like putting the bad boy in class in charge of the filmstrip projector frazzled May 2017 #7

I'm a progressive and I'm outraged eissa May 2017 #8

" irrelevant institution" ? Rustyeye77 May 2017 #9

Very well said. (n/t) leftynyc May 2017 #12

Oil. jalan48 May 2017 #10

After Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize anything is possible. nm MichMan May 2017 #11

Thank you. nycbos May 2017 #13

the UN is a fucking joke rollin74 May 2017 #14

'True rights' for women will be achieved only when privileged, wealthy white women PotatoChip May 2017 #15

Maybe it's a move to throw more responsibility on them... JoeStuckInOH May 2017 #16