Reuters.com reported over the weekend that the US will not be
attending a United Nations conference on racism. The reason?
Apparently, the declaration the conference wants everyone to sign onto
calls Zionism racist.
I don't know about you, but when a single religion/race gets it's own
country, I'm thinking that's racist.
Regardless of that, however, it seems pretty ridiculous for the USG to
decide that because of this one difference of opinion they're going to
boycott the whole thing. For a country founded on the blood of
millions of Native Americans, built on the backs of generations of
African American slaves, which has exploited cheap immigrant labor
from the beginning (and still does to this day) this move by the US
seems like a rare example of honesty.
How ironic that we have a black president right now. I suppose it just
goes to show you that there is no real difference between the races--a
black man can be just as racist as the white guys who came before him.
Or maybe... could this be Classism? After all, the idea here is that
we are boycotting the UN conference on racism, thus sacrificing our
support of all races in favor of just one--and it's a race (well,
religion, really) stereotypically known for controlling wealth (not
that I believe this--I just know others do).
I've got nothing against anyone's belief system (believe what you need
to in order to get by, I say) but when you use your religious beliefs
to harm the rights of others (COUGHpalestineCOUGH) I start to have
problems.
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