"'Racial discrimination against minorities is a chronic sickness in American society.'
'...the challenges facing the United States in human rights are deep-seated. They did not just emerge over the past four years, such as Black Lives Matter.'
'[S]lavery is the original sin of America. It's weaved white supremacy and black inferiority into our founding documents and principles.'
What distinguishes these relatively similar remarks about America's flawed past and imperfect present? The first two were delivered by Communist Chinese officials in an effort to embarrass the United States on the world stage. The third is an indictment of the United States by the United States itself.
That particular remark comes from the head of the American mission to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, in a March speech before the UN General Assembly... Thomas-Greenfield is presently focused on getting the U.S. back into the United Nations Human Rights Council, an organization from which the U.S. withdrew in 2018-and for good reason.
The UNHRC is an organization plagued by corruption. It elevates miscreants like China, Algeria, Congo, Cuba, Pakistan, Venezuela, Russia, and Qatar to membership. It maintains a permanent agenda item-Item Seven-dedicated to the criticism of Israel. It elects people like Richard Falk, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist and obsequious apologist for the terror group Hamas, to oversee the situation in the Palestinian territories. It selects individuals like Jean Ziegler, a co-founder and recipient of the preposterous 'Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights,' to defend Venezuela's murderous Maduro regime as a victim of America's 'economic war.' And so on...
The world's rogue states have long sought to blur the clear and discrete lines between their systemic abuses and America's imperfections. For some reason, the Biden administration seems to want to give that sort of craven propagandizing a boost."