So, we're judging people on the basis of things they haven't condemned now? I mean, there's a ton of actions that have been undertaken by the Israeli government (hell, by people closer to home, too) through just the past 5 years that are pretty horrific, but I don't take the failure to condemn them as a sign that people tacitly approve of them. Should I?
So, we're judging people on the basis of things they haven't condemned now? I mean, there's a ton of actions that have been undertaken by the Israeli government (hell, by people closer to home, too) through just the past 5 years that are pretty horrific, but I don't take the failure to condemn them as a sign that people tacitly approve of them. Should I?
The complaint against the UN in the article is that they failed to issue a condemnation of rape by Hamas. But, they seem to have made no comment about it whatsoever. (The reference to a deleted tweet was for the attack more broadly, despite the attempt to imply otherwise). Is failing to condemn a specific instance of torture support for torture? I've never publicly condemned the genocide of Herero and Nama by the Germans during German South-West Africa; does that make me a supporter of German colonial atrocities? Because though I condemn that genocide, one could easily spin it as "Sherm has never condemned the genocide of the Herero and Nama; can you believe it?"
It's a crummy argument, and he has plenty of examples he could have drawn from without it. So why include it?
Because a reasonable person might not think "rape as a weapon of war" was something that needed specific condemnation when their policy on it generally is already quite unequivocal? UN Women is not known for making exceptions on this sort of thing. That's my point; does a failure to make a specific condemnation negate a broad one that covers the circumstance? Because if it does, that's an awful lot of people who are tacitly pro-arltrocity in here, and we're among them.
I condemned torture by the Dubya administration but I was assured by my Republican "friends" that this was not really torture, but if it was torture it was necessary, and by the way Jesus approved. So apparently we don't all disapprove of torture. Apparently it depends.
So, we're judging people on the basis of things they haven't condemned now? I mean, there's a ton of actions that have been undertaken by the Israeli government (hell, by people closer to home, too) through just the past 5 years that are pretty horrific, but I don't take the failure to condemn them as a sign that people tacitly approve of them. Should I?
The complaint against the UN in the article is that they failed to issue a condemnation of rape by Hamas. But, they seem to have made no comment about it whatsoever. (The reference to a deleted tweet was for the attack more broadly, despite the attempt to imply otherwise). Is failing to condemn a specific instance of torture support for torture? I've never publicly condemned the genocide of Herero and Nama by the Germans during German South-West Africa; does that make me a supporter of German colonial atrocities? Because though I condemn that genocide, one could easily spin it as "Sherm has never condemned the genocide of the Herero and Nama; can you believe it?"
It's a crummy argument, and he has plenty of examples he could have drawn from without it. So why include it?
Because a reasonable person might not think "rape as a weapon of war" was something that needed specific condemnation when their policy on it generally is already quite unequivocal? UN Women is not known for making exceptions on this sort of thing. That's my point; does a failure to make a specific condemnation negate a broad one that covers the circumstance? Because if it does, that's an awful lot of people who are tacitly pro-arltrocity in here, and we're among them.
I condemned torture by the Dubya administration but I was assured by my Republican "friends" that this was not really torture, but if it was torture it was necessary, and by the way Jesus approved. So apparently we don't all disapprove of torture. Apparently it depends.