My Take | Western values, what Western values? | South China Morning Post

My Take | Western values, what Western values? | South China Morning Post John Whitbeck writes: "In the article transmitted above, my distinguished recipient Alex Lo shines a bright light on a particularly egregious example of Western hypocrisy. While the U.S. and U.K. governments, as well as several other Western governments, have formally declared that China's deradicalization/reeducation program in Xinjiang constituted "genocide", even though no intentional "cides" (killings) were even alleged to have occurred during this program, they continue to deem it outrageous to apply the term "genocide" to Israel's continuing program of indiscriminate mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. If one wishes to find indisputable evidence that Western governments have no genuine concern for "human rights" but simply use that term selectively as a club to beat up countries that it dislikes for other reasons, the Xinjiang/Palestine dichotomy provides it. NOTE: The 15 countries denouncing China's human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council are exclusively from the "Global West", of which Japan, whose people were formally deemed "honorary whites" by the former South African apartheid regime, forms a part. Source: https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3286063/western-values-what-western-values Opinion"