So many people are denouncing the human rights movements. I celebrate them
More and more often, I hear how the human rights movements are inherently bad, rotten, vile. On the other hand, I see them as wonderful but hijacked, morphed into destructive forces.
Yes, maybe there were nasty people infiltrating from the start.
But I think of the many amazing people who took on slavery, no votes for women, huge discrimination against non-whites, women, Jews, gays and lesbians.
I wrote my MA thesis on one of these courageous spirited caring warm intelligent no-quitting people, Nellie L. McClung. The title: She Came to the Rescue: the Life and Writings of Nellie L. McClung, Feminist. I loved writing about her. She did so much - not alone but with others, with like-minded friends. That’s what a movement does - you don’t have to do it all on your own.
I see the movement for choice around the injections as part of these movements.
And now, here is one of a hundred comments against these movements:
Those movements didn't turn destructive. They were engineered to be destructive from the start. CIA funded them.
I see these putdowns of the human rights movements as yet another spoke in the wheel meant to roll over us and destroy us. (By the way, the CIA wasn’t around 150 years ago. Plus we don’t all live in the US.)
Yes, good movements (feminism, civil rights, gay rights, etc) have been turned into largely destructive ones. That does not mean they are inherently or mainly bad.
Civil rights - racial equality - that's great, not destructive. Equal rights for women - including the vote - that's great. Ending the massive discrimination against gays and lesbians - that's great. Taking care of the environment - that's also great. Over and over, I see good movements turned destructive. As I’ve already said, there may well have been infiltration from the start, or from near the start.
There were also amazing people who cared about fairness and justice. The people putting down these movements leave out the massive contributions to our world by amazing people.
I appreciate being able to get work I would otherwise have almost certainly not gotten: college teaching, equal pay. I could also get a university education - which used to be closed to women. My father's mother was beaten and when she ran for help, sent home (the reward was to come after death). There is so massively much good coming from these movements.
People against the movements are throwing out the baby with the bathwater. There were massive injustices. They needed to be addressed. There are still injustices to address.
There is also, at present, a huge amount of counter-prejudice that needs to be stopped (anti-men, anti-whites, anti-cops, anti-capitalism, anti-Christian, anti-thinking, anti-fact).
But back to the older movements for human rights. I must say, the people who put down the human rights movements sound utterly horrifically brainwashed to me - as brainwashed as any of the people who are pro-injection. They also sound as if they have no awareness of history - the many injustices.
Here’s another comment (of hundreds):
Everyone should be free to pursue their lives in any way they chose short of harming another. To peacefully practice your own mission is the only 'right' you need.
My reply: This person (like so many others) doesn't address: how were we to get this right? That's where the movements come in. United we are much stronger.
To peacefully practice your own mission is the only 'right' you need.
Go tell this message to Harrier Tubman! “Stop that silly underground railroad, just peacefully practice your own mission.”
In fact, tell everybody: To peacefully practice your own mission is the only 'right' you need. Right. Tell the slaves to just peacefully practice non-slavery. And tell women to peacefully practice getting equal pay for work of equal value - and peacefully practice voting. And on and on.
I do see that we have been much too unwary about how these movements could be shifted to being destructive. Hitler did this very openly: he just got rid of the people at the head of, for instance, feminist groups and installed people with his ideology. In most cases, the shift is much more covert.
Most of us - definitely including me - had no clue that the movements could be infiltrated by people with an anti-human agenda.
So there is a huge amount of learning to do.
Plus we need to look closely and EVALUATE: what is for human rights and what just creates new injustices? New injustices: anti-police, anti-fathers, anti-Christian, anti-citizens, and on.
But that we need to act against new injustices does not mean there was, and is, no need for movements against long-standing injustices.
I will end with a question: who is behind the denunciations of the human rights movements? If you believe they are inherently bad, and/or have been infiltrated from the start, WHAT IS THE SOURCE for this belief? My sense is the overwhelming majority of people against these movements have been BRAINWASHED to be against them, and have not checked the sources for their beliefs.
If the human rights movements were infiltrated from the start, try to find out: who were the INFILTRATORS? For instance, there were 5 people who, in Canada, headed the persons case - the movement to have women legally declared persons. If you believe there was massive infiltration everywhere, check these people. Is there any indication any of them were evil plants?
I believe not. One was Nellie McClung. The others were 4 of her friends.
In general, check the sources for all your beliefs. In fact, check out your beliefs - how strong is the evidence backing them, or the lack thereof?
I’ll end with a photo of Nellie, and of the group memorial to the person’s case.
So much to celebrate, and remember with pleasure and even joy!
Posted: August 17, 2022