• kevinsbacon@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    No JKs goal was to get Amnesty to pull support for trans people, which she succeeded at.

    Now it’s our turn to use our voices and throw our weight at Amnesty to do the right thing.

    If Amnesty is incapable or unwilling to care, it must fall.

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      If a wall has a hole in it, you patch the hole, or build a new wall. Tearing it down before building a new wall would demonstrate a level of recklessness bordering on suicidality.

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      3 days ago

      Amnesty do the right thing

      Sorry this made me laugh in Ukrainian

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      3 days ago

      it must fall

      That seems very radical. Why entirely abolish an organization that generally fights for the greater good, just because it failed once or a few times? What is going to take its place?

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        Because next time it will be gay people.

        Next time it will be Muslims.

        Next time it will be Black People.

        Next time it will be Women.

        Because Fascism does not stop and must not be tolorated.

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          2 days ago

          You could also say that Amnesty is doing something, and if you tear it down, then nothing will be done.

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              You don’t have the ability to build anything that does anything nearly as useful as amnesty international does for humanity.

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          3 days ago

          Have I ever implied that nothing should be done? Of course we need to fight for change. I simply doubt that axing the entire organization is a good solution. That would be like fighting your potential ally.

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            We’re not axing them, we don’t have that power it’s just rhetoric. We’re pressuring them. They need to know that the general public will NOT stand for billionaire bigots sticking their ugly noses in our affairs. That’s the position we’re in now because THEY caved.