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#Butt out, UN! and other commentary

#Butt out, UN! and other commentary

June 17, 2020 | 5:22pm

Foreign desk: Butt Out, UN!

On Twitter, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley blasts the UN Human Rights Council for wading into America’s racial tensions. On Monday, the council announced an “urgent” debate on “racially inspired human-rights violations, systemic racism, police brutality and the violence against peaceful protests” in the United States. While “America is not perfect,” Haley notes, the UN mandarins refuse “to debate concentration camps in China, political murders in Cuba, torture in Syria, state-imposed starvation in North Korea and slavery in parts of Africa.” She might have in mind, perhaps, the more than 1 million Muslims the Beijing regime keeps in Orwellian “re-education camps.” Or the North African nation of Mauritania, where rights groups say up to a fifth of the population remains enslaved. Add the mass-killing horrors of Syria and North Korea, and the UN debate on US policing is, as Haley suggests, “a farce.”

Campus watch: #DefundCollege

While 49 percent of blacks oppose the “idiotic” idea of defunding police, observes Tablet’s Liel Leibovitz, 43 percent of Americans with a post-graduate degree back it. His idea? “Defund the deans” at colleges. Employers should “stop hiring college grads.” The college experience, after all, may explain Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis’ “senseless” decision to risk their achievements as lawyers throw Molotov cocktails at a police car in Brooklyn. And why reporters at The New York Times have led it to abandon “all traditional tenets of journalism.” Companies should hire “actual hardworking Americans” — “high-school graduates” interested in helping people connect respectfully. The path to national healing lies in hiring “only those Americans who did not waste their time and money learning the art of resentment in college.”

Legal beat: So Much for ‘But Gorsuch’

Ironically, notes The Washington Post’s Henry Olsen, President Trump’s promise to pick a pro-conservative Supreme Court justice, so vital to his 2016 election victory, may have now triggered “the unraveling” of his coalition. Religious voters, including some Democrats, “clearly expected” Trump’s high-court picks to oppose a progressive “cultural agenda,” but Justice Neil Gorsuch on Monday found that “the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employment discrimination against LGBTQ Americans” — rendering him “untrustworthy” in the eyes of these voters. Even “a small reduction” in Republicans’ “margin among the devout” could “destroy” Trump’s re-election chances. The president now will need to “spend more time shoring up his support among religious voters,” yet even that may not make up for voters’ lost faith.

Tech mogul: Open Platforms Boost Democracy

At USA Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lists what he considers his company’s “civic responsibilities” ahead of the 2020 election. First, Facebook will create a “Voting Information Center with authoritative information, including how and when to vote.” Second, it will invest in “some of the most advanced systems in the world” to protect against “election interference.” Last, it won’t censor politicians’ speech (except in cases of “imminent physical harm” or voter suppression), even speech many people “viscerally dislike” — because “accountability only works if we can see what those seeking our votes are saying.” That way, voters will be able to “make judgments for themselves” and have “as open a platform as possible” for all viewpoints.

Conservative: NBC’s Censorship ‘Insanity’

On Tuesday, NBC inaccurately reported that Google had blocked The Federalist from collective revenue via Google Ads for violating “policies on content related to race” — a claim, blasts National Review’s David Harsanyi (a former editor at The Federalist), that’s “utter nonsense.” All of the site’s content “falls well within the parameters of contemporary political discourse.” NBC’s accusation is based on a Federalist piece criticizing Black Lives Matter, not “one word” of which is racist. Plus, Google says NBC got the story wrong, that the tech giant had only warned it “could” demonetize The Federalist. But NBC clearly wanted to see the publication squashed. “Where are all the other journalists banding together to defend the ideals of free expression and the First Amendment?” asks Harsanyi. “So far, nowhere.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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