The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the University of Winnipeg have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see their organizations work jointly to fulfill their common goals of promoting human rights education and encourage people to take action for Human Rights..
Museum president Stuart Murray says partnerships like this will move Winnipeg closer to becoming the Human Rights capital of Canada..
The MOU includes the appointment of several CMHR employees as Adjunct professors at the University and a project that will see the Museum partner with the University in delivering a three week summer institute on Human rights issues. Adventures in Global Citizenship, this August, is geared towards first and second year students..To be clear: "Human rights" in Canada boils down to our nutty "human rights" system. "Human rights" at the international level boils down to the UN "human rights" council, which is still considering the membership of Baathist Syria, even as its populace continues to be used as target practice by the nasty, brutish and tall despot in charge of the joint. I suppose it can all be seen as an "adventure" of sorts, but it's definitely not the type any freedom-lover should be inclined to support, much less crow about.
Update: I say we completely reorient this dangerous, incoherent laughingstock of a museum. Get rid of the mass atrocity porn and the "human rights" crap, and turn it into...the Candian Museum for Freedom. Winnipeg could thus become "the freedom capital of Canada."
Who's with me?
2 comments:
I'm with you--from deep in the American South--but I think we in the West have become so deeply steeped in the culture of victimology that many of us would rather rate as victims than as successes.
I can't begin to tell you the number of Nordic-looking Euro-Americans who have begun to claim they are really "Native Americans." I still remember some years ago seeing a booth at a historical fair, here in Florida, supposedly manned by members of the Cherokee Nation, meaning about half-a-dozen Scandinavian-looking women (only even more so--not one of them was a brunette). Just to be sure, I asked them point-blank if they were indeed Cherokees; all of them claimed to be enrolled in the Eastern division of the tribe. The literature they were handing out was heavy on emphasizing the injustices suffered by the Cherokees, especially their displacement to Oklahoma along the infamous Trail of Tears. Of course, none of those women--physically, linguistically, and culturally indistinguishable from the Northern European-descended population (only more so!)--could possibly have shared in the victimhood of the 1830s-vintage Cherokees, but darn if they weren't going to do their best to get a piece of the victimology action.
You're right, the whole business of scrambling for "greater" victim status is sick. We _should_ celebrate
the great freedoms that have enabled the English-speaking peoples to become a crucible for personal, cultural, and economic success for immigrants from all over the world. Whether the necessary sea-change in the culture can take place at this late date . . . well, that's another issue altogether.
Thanks for your support, Carlos. You get that "human rights" in our time is a scam, a way for the power-hungry to acquire power by spraying their stinky ambitions with "human rights" Febreze.
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