Nitin Sethi retweetledi
No country’s record on human rights is stellar and that’s not to take away from ours or to critique it and stand up against injustice - like so many of us do. But this charade that Europe is better than us or entitled to question us - with probably the most morally vacuous foreign policy and a continent whose economy, infrastructure and prosperity was built on loot is pushing it.
If the principle is human rights then let’s apply it equitably. No nation can ride the white horse or the high horse.
The reverse of the argument that they are better now, so their sins are washed is reductionist.
Saket Gokhale@SaketGokhale
We’re defending our “glorious” record on human rights abroad just 24 hours after the Supreme Court criticized its own verdict denying bail to Umar Khalid who has been jailed for over 5 years without trial. There are chief ministers who campaigned in recent elections while making the most vicious remarks targeting religious minorities. In Bengal, over 2.7 million valid voters were denied their basic right to vote in elections last month. Religious politics over food and dietary habits is being unleashed across the country. Sure, we can try to fool the world with carefully scripted diplomatic readouts but the truth cannot be hidden so easily.
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