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Human trafficking hurts the profits of almost no large corporation; so - there's no economic pressure to eradicate it. And most governments are not very amenabl

Human trafficking hurts the profits of almost no large corporation; so - there's no economic pressure to eradicate it. And most governments are not very amenable to pressure by human-rights groups, especially when they advocate for foreigners with a different language, different skin color, no voting rights and no money.

aspenmayer 6y ago
Sadly to me, it’s socially acceptable to believe that the concerns of others are just, like, your opinion, man, and that it’s okay to not share the concerns of wider society, and furthermore okay that other narrower societies are not one’s concerns either; that to not care about others is a political stance, and therefore, to impress upon one the necessity of human rights for all, is to open the floor for a political debate. It’s strange to me, but nearly every time human rights are invoked, those invoking it are called out for being needlessly politically correct. As if being politically correct were the goal all along, as if being a sjw were a goal itself, so that the goal or argument in favor of the goal can be dismissed out of hand without discussion or debate. It’s a thought-terminating cliché.[0] I feel gaslit by society sometimes. Where have all the nice good people gone? I know all those folks in Mr Rogers Neighborhood are real people irl, but they increasingly seem like characters and actors from a society that no longer exists and perhaps never did, but hopefully one day could exist. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
- einpoklum 6y ago
  I'm actually not a great fan of the "Human Rights discourse". I would rather phrase things in terms of interests, needs and desires, which should be catered to due to human (and sometimes class) solidarity. Will read your link; for now, I'll reciprocate with this: https://libcom.org/library/implosion-point-democratist-ideology https://libcom.org/library/implosion-point-democratist-ideol...

aspenmayer 6y ago

Sadly to me, it’s socially acceptable to believe that the concerns of others are just, like, your opinion, man, and that it’s okay to not share the concerns of wider society, and furthermore okay that other narrower societies are not one’s concerns either; that to not care about others is a political stance, and therefore, to impress upon one the necessity of human rights for all, is to open the floor for a political debate. It’s strange to me, but nearly every time human rights are invoked, those invoking it are called out for being needlessly politically correct. As if being politically correct were the goal all along, as if being a sjw were a goal itself, so that the goal or argument in favor of the goal can be dismissed out of hand without discussion or debate. It’s a thought-terminating cliché.[0] I feel gaslit by society sometimes. Where have all the nice good people gone? I know all those folks in Mr Rogers Neighborhood are real people irl, but they increasingly seem like characters and actors from a society that no longer exists and perhaps never did, but hopefully one day could exist. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...

einpoklum 6y ago
I'm actually not a great fan of the "Human Rights discourse". I would rather phrase things in terms of interests, needs and desires, which should be catered to due to human (and sometimes class) solidarity. Will read your link; for now, I'll reciprocate with this: https://libcom.org/library/implosion-point-democratist-ideology https://libcom.org/library/implosion-point-democratist-ideol...