It absolves no one, but a worldview that does not acknowledge the existence of human rights will make little progress toward it. The United States of America has consistently failed to live up to its ideals. The idea that "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence was in glaring contradiction to legalized slavery within the colonies and the newly formed United States. However, without this ideal, how much longer would slavery have continued?
There is no perfect country that has ever existed. Some make progress, and others regress into more oppression.
The same people in the United States who demand the use of a person's preferred pronouns are the same group defending Hamas. I have a hard time leveling this thinking. In our society, misgendering is something so offensive that we have politicians fighting about it.
In the Gaza Strip, women are oppressed, and you cannot be openly gay without fear of death. Girls have unequal access to education, and those who protest Hamas are tortured, imprisoned, or murdered.
So, no, the West is not absolved of evil, but at least we recognize what constitutes evil.
Although apparently, this is changing. We've so utterly lost our way that people justify the attack of Hamas on innocent children because Israel is "occupying" Gaza by maintaining a blockade against it for safety. This is something Egypt does as well, but nobody cares if Egypt does it. It only matters that Israel does it.
It absolves no one, but a worldview that does not acknowledge the existence of human rights will make little progress toward it. The United States of America has consistently failed to live up to its ideals. The idea that "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence was in glaring contradiction to legalized slavery within the colonies and the newly formed United States. However, without this ideal, how much longer would slavery have continued?
There is no perfect country that has ever existed. Some make progress, and others regress into more oppression.
The same people in the United States who demand the use of a person's preferred pronouns are the same group defending Hamas. I have a hard time leveling this thinking. In our society, misgendering is something so offensive that we have politicians fighting about it.
In the Gaza Strip, women are oppressed, and you cannot be openly gay without fear of death. Girls have unequal access to education, and those who protest Hamas are tortured, imprisoned, or murdered.
So, no, the West is not absolved of evil, but at least we recognize what constitutes evil.
Although apparently, this is changing. We've so utterly lost our way that people justify the attack of Hamas on innocent children because Israel is "occupying" Gaza by maintaining a blockade against it for safety. This is something Egypt does as well, but nobody cares if Egypt does it. It only matters that Israel does it.