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Everything is politics.
Politics turning into a bad word bodes horribly for humanity.
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Australia on Friday defended their hotly contested decision to pull out of a cricket series against Afghanistan following a Taliban crackdown on women's "Basic human rights".
Australia and Afghanistan were scheduled to play three ODIs in the United Arab Emirates in March but Cricket Australia scrapped the series after consultation with stakeholders, including the Australian government.
Cricket Australia had been hopeful of playing Afghanistan and was in regular contact with the Afghanistan Cricket Board, he added.


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Human rights are absolutely politics. 
What the statement should be is "Human rights are non-negotiable". >

Literally everything is politics. >

There are only two types of people: those who feel like they’re the default option in the character creator, and political >

They are the most important politics. >

Yeah, I really don't agree when people say "x isn't politics". Human rights, very clearly and obviously is and has always been a political issue. Where you stand on it is a political stance. 
What Hockley means to say it's that they're non-negotiable, and Australia is right to do this. >

Nah. He is clearly getting ahead of the criticism. One party says not doing y cause x. Other party responds by saying they're not doing y cause of politics. 
It's not that human rights doesn't become a political issue, it's that it shouldn't be in politics at all. Western idealization is like you say, if only it were true in the west. >

Why is Afghanistan even allowed to compete internationally? >

I would let them. Sports competition, especially the Olympics always see athletes from oppressive countries apply for asylum in the hosting country. It's their only way out. >

Yes all of those female athletes that the Taliban will send out, they can definitely claim asylum in the UAE. Absolutely nothing wrong with that plan. >

Well, human rights are the very embodiment of politics. There's nothing wrong with that either. We need to stop treating it as a dirty word. >

Refreshing to see Australia with an actual Government.Rather than something like: "I don't hold a Burka, Mate." or any other Idiocy by the happy clappy Moron. >


‘Human rights are not politics’:

True.

Australia

Said politicians of a country that puts asylum seekers in detention centers.
Good morning my friends, good morning. >


‘Human rights are not politics’:

But hypocrisy is! >

yeah go say that to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and watch them laugh. Human rights are what you want them to be when you want to look good. >

Obviously an Australian down voted you mate. A racist one at that. They need to take a long hard look at their own back yard. The way the Aboriginal people have been and are treated in Auatralia is disgusting. >

Is this the same Australia that was commiting war crimes in Afghanistan? Idk, sounds like human rights are in fact political. >

Decentralized war crimes committed by individual soldiers, even if they aren’t punished, are a completely different can of worms from a regime that openly and officially strips rights from half or more of its citizens. >

if they're not punished that's centralization, I don't know what else you can call it >

Nah, that’s just good ole fashioned institutional corruption that in theory can be reformed away. It isn’t like the Taliban, whose entire regime and worldview is built on massive human rights violations. >

Or Russia, which intentionally uses war crimes as a strategy of war. >

Human rights are artificial constructs that only exists in the minds of those who know about them, they are not hydrogen. They are only valid for those who agree to them. Expecting everybody to follow them just because they are a popular idea within certain cultural groups is silly. >

You were doing well until the last sentence. How about...

Expecting everybody to follow them just because they are ~~a popular idea~~ the only way to assure a fair and just society ~~within~~ for ~~certain~~ all cultural groups is ~~silly~~ a noble ideal. >

appeasing to all cultural groups is not a noble idea, and only supports why such backwards ideals should not exist, anywhere. >

Which particular groups should have their aspirations blocked, in your opinion? >

Groups that are known to cause harm to society, such as the Taliban, sodomites, and so on. >

Taliban cause harm to women, among others.
Define "sodomites". >

People who promote the destruction of society by spreading ir engaging in deviant and unhygenic sexual practices >

You used so many weasel words when you could've just said you are homophobic lmao. >

how am i homophobic? >

Yes agreed.