Human Rights Watch: Covering up an Arab Trade in Black Slaves

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Big Peace:

HRW’s treatment of Mauritania’s black slaves cinches our case. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania has more slaves per capita than any other nation on Earth. It abolished slavery in 1905, 1961 and 1980; the country criminalized it in 2007, but the UN, the US State Department, and Amnesty International report that slavery continues. According to UN reports – confirmed by our Mauritanian abolitionist allies – slaves in Mauritania are the wholly owned property of masters, passed on through their estates, like furniture or cattle. Slave girls are given as wedding gifts.

You might think black slaves would be a top priority for an American rights champion. But there’s a problem. While the slaves are African, their masters are not white Europeans; they are Arab-Berber Muslims.

HRW knows all this but won’t tell anybody. Its reports have mentioned slavery in Mauritania only four times since 1994. Why? Because there is no political gain, no expiation, no dollars – or dinars.

[NCTexan]

We have proposed a theory – The Human Rights Complex – to explain this human rights “selectivity.” Western rights groups, predominantly composed of decent white folks, seek to scold behavior they deem immoral – but only when it’s committed by people like themselves. When confronted with evil committed by non-Westerners, rights advocates avert their eyes. Off the record, rights activists explain that Westerners don’t have moral standing to criticize “others.” “We,” after all, stole the land from the Indians, enslaved blacks, invaded other countries or what have you. In truth, however, in today’s PC world, criticizing the “other” invites painful accusations of bigotry, racism and Islamophobia.

This quote from the article nails it...

 

It's also, (as GWB called it) "The 'soft bigotry' of low expectations!"

 

This is applied silently by the liberal elite (AKA "The Great White Fathers" of today).

 

In local circumstances it says, "Well of course they can't do better in school... they're black."

 

In this human rights narrative it says, "They're African primitives... they enslave and use machetes on each other. That's just what 'they' do."

 

This thinking is not 'soft' bigotry.... it's the worst kind of bigotry.

 

Most conservatives reject this elitist thinking.... and feel that everyone is capable of acting and performing to high standards regardless of their race.

 

JMO