Saturday 24 February 2024

FROM this week’s news ON: human rights and humanitarian aid [Note: Content Warning - links to distressing reports on this topic. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

Note: in my “from the news” posts, quotes are shown italicised and blue, my comments are in a different shade of blue, and “good” items are shown in green. I have loosely grouped the posts where such seemed reasonable, but that is subjective (i.e., my opinion - others are free to disagree), and challenging, as some posts belong in multiple “groups”.

Fromm this week’s news on human rights (note: I may continue to add links for a few days, possibly up to a week, after these are published), noting that many issues have probably not made it into the news that I see: 

 


  • “Bookshop Owner Apologises After Calling For ‘White Kids’ On Book Covers And No Rainbow”   https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/bookshop-owner-apologises-after-calling-for-white-kids-on-book-covers-and-no-rainbow/228595   “The controversy surrounding the now-deleted tweets has also led to allegations from a number of _’ ex-staff members, including one Redditor who claimed that staff who were “uncomfortable selling the Matt Walsh Johnny the Walrus anti-trans book” were advised to ‘find another job because at _ “we don’t cancel books’”.”   I stopped using that bookstore a couple of decades ago over its obvious, growing intolerance. The alleged apology is not, in my opinion, genuine  



 

  • in South Africa, the city of   “Cape Town hit by ‘unimaginable’ stench from 19,000 cattle on live export ship”   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/20/cape-town-hit-by-unimaginable-stench-from-19000-cattle-on-live-export-ship   “Animal welfare groups say smell from the build-up of faeces and ammonia on the ship are indicative of the conditions animals endure”   Live animal export has always been obviously fraught with risks of animal cruelty - it should never have started, and all those who enabled it to start are morally culpable for every bit of suffering - including inhumane killing techniques in other nations: saying we are not responsible for how other nations choose to slaughter is both wrong and missing the point: we could prevent animals being subjected to that barbarity AND the barbarity they are exposed to on the ships, which is compelled by nothing but callousness (to the point of sadism) and greed  

 

My links for activism post may aid any activism you may decide to do on any/all of these. If you do, don’t get too fixated on specific instances of problems - important though they may well be: take a moment to also consider the broader issues these incidents and groups of incidents may suggest/reveal.

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

  • this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post. 

 

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Remember: we need to be more human being rather than human doing, and all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering”.

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