tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699923429391486972.post5194776791261980427..comments2023-10-17T09:19:35.163-04:00Comments on Musings: Racists on RacicmAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05634440673913849474noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699923429391486972.post-10450579196551350242009-04-22T20:14:00.000-04:002009-04-22T20:14:00.000-04:00Roger Simon's wording on the outcome is priceless....Roger Simon's wording on the outcome is priceless. "At 4PM Geneva time, the United Nations and its High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced that the responsible committee (hard to know exactly who that is) had approved the final outcome statement of the Durban Review Conference."<br /><br />http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2009/04/21/durban-ii-diary-part-4-the-un-folds-its-cards/<br /><br />I'm not entirely sure I can be all that cynical about the UN's motivations as the whole thing looks too stupid to have been something they planned to turn out that way. It looks more like they've just let a couple nutjobs strong arm the agenda for the conference, and are now trying to convince the world that these sorts of things still actually matter.Mad Scientist Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10944489511151772939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699923429391486972.post-80565611540118624372009-04-22T09:12:00.000-04:002009-04-22T09:12:00.000-04:00oh, and Powerline reports that the conference has ...oh, and Powerline reports that the conference has been ended. Only three days early.<br />http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023383.phpAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634440673913849474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699923429391486972.post-18284419034093981912009-04-22T09:03:00.000-04:002009-04-22T09:03:00.000-04:00The United Nations' main website has a link to the...The United Nations' main website has a link to the conference, you can find minutes there for each day. However, they also do not have the text of Ahmadinejad's frothing. I think they once again wanted to give themselves an oportunity to posture at holier-than-thou inclusion, followed by righteous indignation... But maybe I'm too cynical about the UN's motives, after all, the charter really is written in such a fashion as to be sure the United Nations is a powerless entity that looks like it is doing something useful.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634440673913849474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7699923429391486972.post-58641975786096503872009-04-21T21:59:00.000-04:002009-04-21T21:59:00.000-04:00Interesting find with the Al Jazeera article. They...Interesting find with the Al Jazeera article. They don't seem too pleased with it either.<br /><br />The Navi Pillay response is so weird I'm almost wondering if it's an "all your base are belong to us" translation or just as weird in Navi's original language. For the UN to complain that Ahmadinejad's speech would invite a bunch of angry responses when they *knew* he'd say something to goad everyone and still invited him borders on the surreal.<br /><br />I'd been having a hard time finding the name of the conference; for some reason many of the news sites didn't give its name. They'd just been calling it the "racism meeting," making the whole thing remind me of one of Tom Lehrer's lines. "I do, however, have a cause. It is obscenity..." And the headlines almost made me wonder if the racism meeting had the same position on racism that Tom Lehrer took on obscenity. "I am for it."Mad Scientist Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10944489511151772939noreply@blogger.com