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muriel_volestrangler

(105,259 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 04:11 AM Friday

New US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights

Source: BBC

The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.

The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.
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"Attempting to label DEI as a human rights violation sets a new low in the Trump administration's weaponization of international human rights," she said.

She added that the new instructions excluded the rights of "women, LGBTQI+ persons, religious and ethnic minorities, and non-believers — all of whom enjoy equal rights under US and international law, despite the meandering and obtuse rights rhetoric of the Trump Administration."

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24200d7y9o



At the moment, it's just to write up whining reports that all the other countries are being nice to people, when Trump and his minions know that God tells them to hate non-whites and women, and be divisive. But I bet this will be an excuse for tariffs soon.
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New US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Friday OP
What would one expect from these people? Old Crank Friday #1
... Solly Mack Friday #2
Wow - doublespeak Nigrum Cattus Friday #3
Fuck every MAGAt everywhere lonely bird Friday #4
Trump is a bane on America and the world RazorbackExpat Friday #5
He really thinks he's king of the world? Owens Friday #6

Owens

(580 posts)
6. He really thinks he's king of the world?
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 02:54 PM
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Telling other countries what to do becuase he is a snowflake is ballsy.

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