On the 17th December 2018, the UN
adopted a resolution aimed at defeating Nazism and neo-Nazism titled ‘Combating
glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to
fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
related intolerance.’
The document revolves around these victims of
discrimination and intolerance and clarifies who they might be throughout the
report. 'Anti-Semitism', 'Islamophobia', 'Christianophobia', 'Arabophobic', 'Afrophobic', 'Roma' and 'ethnic' are the terms used, often on more than a few occasions.
Sometimes the terminology is less specific, but the references are clear
enough.
Is the UN forgetting the
thousands of homosexuals, or the hundreds of thousands of disabled people, murdered
by the Nazi regime? The omission would have been bad enough if the document was
speaking about prejudice in general, but denying these groups a mention in the
context of Nazism is outright obscene. Was it an oversight? Perhaps with
regards to disabled people, who tend to become invisible when they, or their advocates,
are not present, shouting their cause, but leaving any mention of the ongoing prejudice
against LGBT is a clear symptom of the feeble UN that has to pander to the scores of homophobic
countries within its midst. The LGBT community is an obvious butt of Nazism and
neo-Nazism, but, as well as that, even today, the legislation of many countries
actually enforces this persecution. This week Angola decriminalised
homosexuality, but the fact remains that it is still illegal in about 70 countries
(over 1/3 of UN recognised countries), with a few actually using the death
penalty as a deterrent.
A new organisation called UNaligned
is about to be launched that intends to show up the hypocrisies of the UN and
offer a virtual alternative that people can feel an active part of. The launch
should be within a few weeks and it will be announced in this blog... so watch
this space!
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