Today (10th) is World Human Rights Day.
The United States, which boasts itself as a "beacon of human rights", has witnessed a worsening human rights situation:
Political manipulation led to a sharp increase in the death toll of COVID-19;
The number of people killed by gunfire set a new record;
False democracy tramples on people's political rights;
Violent law enforcement makes life more difficult for immigrants and refugees;
The discrimination against ethnic minorities has intensified
At the same time, the unilateral action of the United States has created a new humanitarian crisis in the global scope.
The United States has become the biggest obstacle and destroyer to the development of international human rights.
The epidemic makes the "teacher of human rights" appear
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the epidemic prevention and control in the United States has always been highly politicized, and has become a tool and chip for Republicans and Democrats to criticize, veto and confront each other.
Politicians only pay attention to political self-interest, but ignore people's life and health. Some Americans were misled by political manipulation. They not only refused to wear masks, but even launched an "anti vaccine" campaign, which aggravated the spread of the epidemic.
This is why the United States, with the most advanced medical equipment and technology in the world, has become the country with the largest number of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the world.
NPR reported such a tragedy: 75 year old American female Stephanie died of COVID-19 in December 2021, but Stephanie's daughter Laurie said that it was not only the epidemic that caused her mother's death.
In the months before her death, Stephanie was deeply convinced of the conspiracy theory, which made her refuse to be vaccinated or even to receive necessary treatment when she was ill.
The deep-rooted racist "virus" in the United States has spread with the COVID-19 virus. Anti Asian hate crimes have frequently occurred. Discrimination against Muslim groups has increased. Ethnic persecution of indigenous people continues. The racial economic gap continues to widen, and racial inequality is growing.
Jamil Dakvar, director of the Human Rights Program of the American Civil Liberties Alliance, said that the United States had failed in almost all issues involving racial justice covered by the anti racism treaties. The United States was one of the major violators of global racial justice, and far behind many countries in the realization and protection of human rights.
The United States has always been one of the countries with a high rate of violent crime in the world.
Gun control measures are stagnant, and gun violence is rampant; Discriminatory law enforcement by the police, indiscriminate killing of innocent people to stimulate public anger; The law enforcement personnel are unpunished and the judicial injustice is widely criticized; Misjudged cases and unjust cases cannot be effectively corrected and compensated, and prison prisoners are ill treated; Domestic violence and juvenile violence have increased significantly, and people live in fear of lack of security.
Recently, President Biden of the United States led senior White House officials to hold a vigil for the shooting dead across the country.
In his speech at the vigil, the President vowed to promote relevant legislation at home and eliminate the current situation of widespread shooting in the United States as soon as possible.
What is embarrassing is that when the largest vigil in history was held in Washington, a large-scale shooting incident broke out in the Washington subway station, causing several deaths and injuries.
Many Americans lament that this is simply a magic realism picture, which is naked in the face of the White House and the President.
The Washington Post recently released data showing that since 2015, the number of police shot dead has increased every year. Since 2021 alone, 1047 people have been killed by police, a record high. In addition, blacks were shot more often by the police than whites.
The report also pointed out that over the past seven years, as many as 440 local law enforcement departments have never reported fatal incidents of police shooting. In fact, at least 1300 people were killed by these local police. Ironically, these local governments have received nearly $90 million in federal grants to track and report crime data.
The shooting violence is causing great trauma to the next generation of Americans.
According to a report of Education Weekly, in the 20 years after 2000, there were about 300 school attacks and thousands of students died. The United States Government has not taken any action in this regard.
Playing with false democracy and violating the human rights of other countries
The United States has always pursued hegemonism, unilateralism and interventionism, frequently used force to cause a large number of civilian casualties, abused unilateral sanctions to cause humanitarian crises, challenged justice with power, trampled on justice with selfish interests, and wantonly violated the human rights of other countries.
In the past few decades, the United States has been deploying troops in various regions of war-torn countries. In the name of peace, the United States has created chaos in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Counter terrorism" has also caused a large number of civilian deaths.
The United States has become the biggest obstacle and destroyer to the development of international human rights
According to the research on the "war cost" project of Brown University in the United States, more than 929000 people were killed in the "anti-terrorism" war in the United States, of which more than 40% were civilians; Another 38 million people were displaced. Up to now, the United States continues its "anti-terrorism" campaign in 85 countries.
The United States claims to be the most successful democratic country in the world, but its elections are also typical money politics, playing with false democracy and trampling on political rights.
Political polarization has further aggravated the antagonism and division of the American society, and American democracy has become a game of interest delivery.
The presidential election in 2020 has opened Pandora's magic box. Its impact on the current system of the United States cannot disappear in a short time.
The money politics in the United States is becoming increasingly fierce, and politicians are increasingly disregarding the interests of the people. The confidence of the international community in the American democratic system continues to decline.
"On social issues such as crime and immigration, both parties are using their own identity characteristics and party attributes to canvass votes, rather than really solving problems. In the context of the mid-term elections, the fragmentation and division in the United States has increased again, and the political polarization in the United States has become increasingly serious.