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Sunday, September 02, 2018
Human Right Watch wants to end Saudi arms sales--after Yemen bus attack.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/hrw-saudi-arms-sale-yemen-school-bus-attack-180902075014341.html
Among the stupid things (and evil also) Burmese-Mon-Shan (by her own admission) racist geologist Yin Yin Nwe said was "HRW is not the UN"--well, of course it is not. That's just the point.
She also said the "uneducated Rohingya women" did not know Gen. Thein Sein. But why should they?
She also accused HRW of "Just asking one side."
This is moral equivalence of for e g trmp saying after Charlottesville "2 sides"
But there are no (equal weight) "2 sides" for
say
Nazis vs millions of Jews and gypsies etc.
Burmese junta vs nearly 1 m Rohingya
1 m internally displaced
1 m migrant workers.
A Chin acquaintance of mine came off the plane in Newark NJ and was met by the same young man who often met me at my train in Princeton.
The Chin (theologian) had saved money washing dishes at the school cafeteria for his round trip air ticket.
Young Man said U-- was mad when he came off the plane, he said "It's worth it to be Ne Win (Burmese dictator)--He only has to die once vs--"
It reminds me of how I used to rant too, in the car when Young Man met me, almost every weekend as I went to see his mother,my childhood friend.
kmk
9-2-2018
Dave Hickey--Art and Democracy--writings--
https://www.amazon.com/Air-Guitar-Essays-Art-Democracy/dp/0963726455
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