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Canada abstains from speaking up against or for colonialism

driving_crooner @lemmy.eco.br - 5day

And of course, the usual two voting against.

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daydrinkingchickadee - 5day

It really is always the same map

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TankieTanuki [he/him] - 5day

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LadyCajAsca [she/her, comrade/them] - 5day

Human rights enforcement in the UN?

No: United States and Israel

Abstain: Other Western-aligned Countries

Yes: Everybody else

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Anna - 5day

I wonder why most of Europe abstained as well...

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HiddenLayer555 - 5day

Because speaking out against colonialism raises the question of whether "Canada" should even exist.

Decolonization necessitates the removal of the currently ruling government so obviously they wouldn't support it.

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dx1 - 5day

It is a colonialist state after all. In the sense of "westward" settler colonialism rather than imperial colonialism (though it participates in that too).

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gecko - 5day

colonial states refraining from condemning colonialism ? 🤯

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Red5 @lemmygrad.ml - 5day

Weird for Ireland to abstain

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cfgaussian @lemmygrad.ml - 5day

Not at all. You'll notice basically the entire EU abstained. Ireland's government is very neoliberal and is aligned with everything that the EU and NATO want. Ireland wants to be part of "the West" and so it has to be pro-colonialist and pro-imperialist. The days when Ireland was a bastion of anti-imperialism are long gone. Anti-imperialist Ireland died when they signed off on the Good Friday Agreement.

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Pyr - 5day

Russia was for? They are literally trying to take over another country at the moment.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ - 5day

When you definitely understand what colonialism is and why the war in Ukraine started.

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