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[–] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 86 points 2 months ago (1 children)

UN General Assembly resolution on "combatting the glorificarion of Nazism, neo-Nazism [...] Contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and memes made with mematic"

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago

The end says 'related intolerance." '

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 months ago (6 children)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child

:::spoiler Which Country is the Greatest Threat to Peace? (Gallup, 2018)

[–] match@pawb.social 21 points 2 months ago

Pakistan pulling a "I don't think about you at all"

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Italy beefing with Afghanistan in 2018, smh even America had moved on

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Fun fact: The US votes against that one because it prohibits giving the death penalty to minors.

Yeah.

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[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 42 points 2 months ago (26 children)

As someone from the U.S., given the history we know about the Trail of Tears and trying to erase Native Americans from existence, this isn’t surprising in the least. Sad, yes, but not surprising.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago

Just like all the colonial powers voting "I don't know about this one dawg" because they know their history

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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (39 children)

I'm guessing, based purely on the countries highlighted, that this is a Russian sponsored resolution.

There are plenty of more genuine resolutions you could've picked, but they wouldn't have fit your narrative as well. Please don't launder Russia's lies just to embellish your point.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago (23 children)

"If Russia says Nazis are bad, than Nazis must be good!"

Liberal politics is just reaction.

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I'm guessing, based purely on the countries highlighted, that this is a Russian sponsored resolution.

Pretty funny how you saw that all of Latin America, Africa, and Asia voted against genocide, and your first reaction is to call them russian bots.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

More that Ukraine voted against it and every single Western country abstained. Was I wrong though?

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

We can't condemn the Nazis because if we condemn the Nazis people will think we're Nazis. When people see that we won't condemn the Nazis, that's how they'll know we aren't Nazis.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] 7oo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Having a metropolis is not exempt from being under oppression.

Would you show pictures of skyscrapers in the middle east to compare its human rights?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Most Marxist-Leninists are skeptical of the Uyghur genocide narrative because the scant evidence we're given comes from spurious sources like Adrian Zenz and an Australian weapons makers think tank called the ASPI. We're also well-versed in the American empire's history of hurling manufactured atrocity propaganda at its geopolitical rivals.

Ignore the photographs of Xinjiang and Gaza. Just look at the maps to the left. They show that the only countries against China on the Uyghur issue are the exact same colonizing countries which are trying to subjugate the Global South on every other issue. We think this isn't a coincidence.

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because the people living in the many apartment towers in the top image aren't being targeted in a literal Final Solution supported by the exact same powers that cry crocodile tears over made-up claims of "genocide in Xinjiang".

Also the Uyghurs living in Xinjiang are Chinese citizens, meaning the accusation of colonisation falls flat on its face.

Death to ameriKKKa, Death to piSSrael

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (21 children)

Canada abstained? What the fuck, hosers?

Edit: wait all/most of Europe as well? WTF

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

Australia as well… I guess it’s white peoples’ fault after all.

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Either the map is wrong, or the header is wrong, because that is not Germany.

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago
[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

This seems a bit too convenient a spread to be as simple as that. The resolution very likely was phrased in a loaded way or had some bit that was dubious. Seeing as the second red one is Ukraine and all of the west is yellow, while Russia, Iran, China, India etc are green, there very likely is context that isn’t being given to us, either intentionally or by accident.

Edit: With Russia, China, India, especially, I mean their adventures with oppression of minorities and unequality in general between cultural groups or heritages. I’m not saying the West is without fault or anything, but clearly the ones voting green are neither. They probably wouldn’t vote against their own alignments here unless it’s just word salad without meaning or responsibilities. Which is something I’m confident would lead a lot of Europe at least not accept it because it’s just a watered down version of something actually desirable.

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OP made Crimea green. There's definitely an agenda here And they gave away their country of origin with that little switch.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago

It's funny because it's the same map as all the "Free world vs unfree world" maps

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Love these colonizer index maps

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Equal shame for all the countries that abstained. There is not a damn chance any country is genuinely unsure how they want to vote so an abstain vote in this case is just "I want to vote against but am too embarrassed to."

Which happens to be the entire West, not a single country commonly considered "Western" voted in favour. Surprise surprise

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We had a shitstorm in Poland over this, it's extremely shameful that a country that suffered so much from nazism did voted like that, but government just responded "EU decided this"

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Absolutely, the only country that might have suffered more at the hands of the Nazis is the Soviet Union. In raw numbers Poland has the 3rd largest number of deaths in WW2, in % of 1939 population it is first.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Statement of the Spanish public TV RTVE in Eurovision

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

For a decade, Russia has submitted a text denouncing the 'glorification of Nazism'

In the context of the war in Ukraine – and with Russia justifying its invasion, which began on 24 February, by the desire to "denazify" the country – many states that had previously abstained decided to vote against the resolution

In its explanation of the vote, the European Union recalled that it had been advocating "for years that the fight against extremism and the condemnation of the despicable ideology of Nazism must not be misused and co-opted for politically motivated purposes that seek to excuse new violations and abuses of human rights."

According to the press release published on the UN website, Ukraine called this text hypocritical believing that, contrary to its title, it was a pretext used by Russia to justify its brutal war against its country and the despicable crimes committed against humanity.

The countries opposing the resolution emphasize at every turn that they do not in any way condone the Third Reich. "We reaffirm our strongest condemnation of all forms of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," Ukraine insisted in 2019, while recalling that 8 million Ukrainians died in the Nazi offensive.

Before the vote, Australia managed to get an amendment to the draft resolution adopted (63 votes in favor, 23 against and 65 abstentions) inserting a new paragraph in which the General Assembly "notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html

Hmm...

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

When your support for a country is so blind and unconditional that you can support genocide.

[–] coconut@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago

Abstaining knowing the US will vote no is also voting no.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Description mentions Germany but it's not highlighted like the others?

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The map seems to be rage bait. Israel is green, the UK and Germany are yellow, and Ukraine went red.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The image contains the date "November 15, 2018", which doesn't match up with anything in the UN Digital Library about that resolution. But if I assume it is the 2018 vote, we should look at A/RES/73/157 voting data, which does seem to line up.

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[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Germany has truly lost its way not siding with its broskis USA and Turkey

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago

That resolution probably broke Deutschland's brain, because although it was a resolution against glorifying nazism, it was also against other forms of discrimination, which they're cool with.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Fuck I got double vision

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