The United Nations has found the real virus that has been harming us all during this pandemic: the patriarchy.
“The #COVID19 pandemic is only demonstrating what we all know: that millennia of patriarchy have resulted in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture which damages everyone — women, men, girls & boys,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, adding that “this is the time to rebuild more equal, inclusive, and resilient societies.”
If anyone knows about how a male-dominated world damages everyone, it’s the U.N. Guterres oversees the world’s biggest organization dedicated to dictator apologia. From Xi Jinping’s China to Vladimir Putin’s Russia to the terrorists of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, no one does more to protect the world’s worst men from scrutiny than Guterres’s U.N.
The U.N. itself has been embroiled in rape scandals, including its largest peacekeeping force in the Congo being a hotbed for sexual abuse with a price tag of $1 billion per year. Among the current members of the executive board of U.N. Women are China, which is currently forcibly sterilizing and aborting the children of Uighur Muslims, and Saudi Arabia, which is no beacon of women’s rights.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has said that the world must be “more ready” for the next pandemic. This after they parroted the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party and allowed the virus to become a global pandemic. Perhaps the patriarchy Guterres was referring to was WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China??. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 14, 2020
The U.N. doesn’t care about protecting women or anyone else for that matter. UN Women allows China and Saudi Arabia on its board because people using the words “mankind” or “landlord” are a more grave threat to women than the decadeslong abuses of women by either country.
The United States “owed” $674 million in dues to the U.N. in 2019, but that’s just the minimum amount we pay for the privilege of being lectured on human rights. The U.S. provides roughly 22-28% of the budget for each U.N. organization. In 2018, that amounted to approximately $10 billion.
The Trump administration has frozen the remaining payments due to the WHO and has vowed to withdraw, but that withdrawal won’t take place until 2021, and Joe Biden has promised he would rejoin the organization if elected. Democrats will back the U.N. no matter what, given that it promotes their social causes, but it should be clear to both parties that the U.S. gains little by remaining in the body that can’t be achieved with other countries directly.
