Thread by @kthalps

If you take human rights seriously, & aren't just red-baiting, I'm sure you'll ask Rep. Meeks @RepGregoryMeeks about his support for Colombian death squads. Did Cuba mistreat LGBTQ people? Yes. Did the United States? Does Cuba still mistreat LGBTQ people? Does Colombia? Which...

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country formally apologized for its mistreatment and implemented a national holiday against Homophobia? Cuba. How many people have died of Covid-19 in Cuba? Have you ever asked Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama about why they didn't declare the coup in Honduras a coup? Did you...

ask Hillary Clinton why, regardless of her position, she lied about the policies that accompany declaring a coup a coup? Did you ask them about how & why Honduras turned into "the murder capitol of the world?" Did you ask them about its booming femicide rates? Have you asked...

any NAFTA-supporting politicians to comment on Juarez' femicide industry? Since you're talking about 1960s Cuba, have you ever asked Kissinger about Pinochet or what he thinks of the dictator's torture methods which include [TRIGGER WARNING] not just electrodes on genitals...

but inserting live rats into women's vaginas? Have you asked @ananavarro where she stands on The Contras? If she has anything to say about the fact that every single human rights organization acknowledged that the Contras implemented torture & terrorism as policy, while the...

Sandinistas did not? To be clear they of course engaged in war crimes while trying to defend themselves from US-backed, trained & funded paramilitaries which were awful but everyone who has studied that conflict admits that both-sidesing the Contras-Sandinistas is a false...

equivalence? Also, I'm not talking about Leftist Human Rights organizations like MADRE or CISPES. I'm talking about standard issue Human Rights orgs like Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch. Have asked @AnastasiaSomoza why her parents chose to name her Anastasia? It's...

not, of course, their fault to be related to the Nicaraguan dictator, Anastasio Somoza, but they probably should have had the decency to not name their daughter after her murderous grandfather. telesurenglish.net/news/Grandaugh…

Here's where you can read about Meeks & Colombian death squads, by the way. inthesetimes.com/article/gregor… h/t @sarahlazare @mauriziogro @InTheseTimesMag