andrewstroehlein.bsky.social
European Media and Editorial Director, Human Rights Watch https://bsky.app/profile/hrw.org. Subscribe to my human rights newsletter: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights All my links here: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
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We need to embed verification, sourcing, logic, and information literacy not as extra modules, but as core cognitive tools, woven through every subject from K–12 onwards. This isn’t about resisting disinformation. It’s about surviving an epistemic environment with collapsing gatekeepers
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And there seem to be no paths to de-escalate the conflict, as long as the leader keeps thinking he needs it for his political survival.
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Opponents are left with few options. If they fight, they give him more of what he wants: conflict used to justify his power. If they are passive, he escalates anyway, because he needs the conflict.
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Driving up fears of others, launching deliberate provocations to incite violence, to then expand conflict, all for his own power, with not a thought about the death and destruction others face because of his lust for power.
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Let them eat popcorn 🍿
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It’s great. Very real life illustrations of why and how human rights matter, and who defends them.
Thank you for your service amigo
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To be fair to the author, the only context he was talking about was Paris, where he lives. France has many problems, but people there are not up against an authoritarian regime that undermines all freedoms and makes any means of free public expression difficult to impossible, as folks in HK are.
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OK, if that's the general definition, then it's the specific type of tagging - the ego-driven kind - that's at issue, I guess. A sub-set.
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I'm not sure I would even call resistance symbols "tags". I'd say "tagging" only refers to self-centred name spreading. Once it's a symbol of political resistance, the person is engaging in society, not just focusing on themself. Seems very different. But then, I'm no expert!
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That graffiti artist in jail as of a couple of hours ago for that tag.
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But that’s rather a different thing, isn’t it? A symbol of political resistance is hardly an individual just writing “me, me, me“, right?
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How can any politician claim to know better about such things?
How can anyone else believe the politician over the doctors?
How can the issue of people’s medical care get tossed around like a political football in the “culture wars” without any regard for the needs of the people most concerned?