If one anti-American organization demands that another anti-American organization condemn America, will anyone care?
The American Civil Liberties Union is now putting this age-old question to the test, demanding that the United Nations condemn the United States for “systemic racism.” According to Jamil Dakwar, the ACLU’s human rights director, “The Biden administration has shown it can name the problem, but the time has come to take bolder action to radically transform these abusive systems and fully implement U.S. human rights obligations.”
The ACLU likes to peddle the myth that police officers are targeting and disproportionately killing unarmed black men. The group already torched whatever civil rights reputation it once had, becoming a leftist group that wants to push gender-confused children into horrific and irreversible transitions and defund the police. Yesterday’s ACLU was absolutely, even stubbornly committed to the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution. Today’s ACLU has lost its integrity and cares about due process only when convenient to its current management’s ideology.
The U.N., for its part, cannot be bothered to condemn even the worst authoritarians. It is powerless to confront China’s genocidal regime, and other authoritarian nations with genuinely appalling human rights records are well represented in the organization’s human rights bodies. Its Human Rights Council currently includes Venezuela, China, and Cuba. Russia was only kicked off the council after its invasion of Ukraine — because before that, the country was clearly a paragon of human rights, am I right?
The UN is a corrupt, bloated bureaucracy that bends over backward to coddle human rights abusers. Its opinions on how the U.S. operates are meaningless and unworthy of note.
The ACLU is now no different from the dime-a-dozen liberal activist groups, but it is still dining out on its old reputation to preserve whatever legitimacy people think it still has. Today’s ACLU is not a unique or meaningful organization — it’s just another shapeless part of the liberal activism blob. And one more condemnation of America from the blob won’t change much of anything.
While the two organizations continue to pretend that they care about civil rights and human rights, their actions show exactly where their priorities lie. We already know that neither the UN nor the ACLU cares about the American experiment. They don’t need to tell us that once again — and as long as they do it in the woods, it won’t even make a sound.
