Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’

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    1 year ago

    I hate this.

    I hate when good people step down.

    They just open the door for some tool to step in and make the problem normal.

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      Good people letting themselves be complicit in bad things, whilst they are powerless to do good, helps no one.

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          I mean, cool, but he’s 64 and is retiring. He started at the UN in '92. He announced that he would retire in March of this year. Most sources list that now.

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            So it’s more of a ‘i don’t need to deal with this insane bullshit so I’m taking my very healthy retirement package and heading out’ more than a ‘im taking a moral stand and leaving my dream career over this insane bullshit’

            Good headlines though.

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      More often, threat of resignation is a political tool to sway others. I mean, if everyone knows that the person threatening to resign is that good and irreplaceable, others would cave in. I don’t know how the UN works behind closed doors, and how capable Mokhiber is, but we’ll see if this works and the UN comes begging for him to return.