{"id":2207,"date":"2010-05-29T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T20:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/05\/29\/the-amnesty-rule\/"},"modified":"2010-05-29T15:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T20:48:22","slug":"the-amnesty-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/05\/29\/the-amnesty-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amnesty rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBouncing off my own post yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/yorksranter.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/29\/the-amnesty-rule\/\">Alex proposes<\/a> the Amnesty rule:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen this happen when B actually had a point \u2013 time after bleeding time, it followed this exact course. I therefore intended to declare this as a law, like Godwin\u2019s Law. The Amnesty rule \u2013 anyone who asks \u201cwhy doesn\u2019t Amnesty speak out on X?\u201d is lying.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThis goes for Human Rights Watch as well. Though I couldn&#8217;t find it yesterday, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve done posts before either here or at <a href=\"\/proggold\/\">Prog Gold<\/a> on this subject, showing some rightwinger bozo that no, AI doesn&#8217;t just criticise the US or Israel and yes, has actually spent more time campaigning on some cause or other he pulled out of his ass and never wrote about before or since&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s worse when this sort of thing comes from alleged lefties, masking as honest critics of Amnesty or whatever other human rights organisation which dared to criticise one of their hobby horses, when whatever miniscule amount of dirt that can be brought up is blown up out of all proportions but what AI actually does is completely ignored. Rightwing critics are bad enough, but relatively honest in their hatred of AI; the motivations of their supposedly leftwing &#8220;critics&#8221; is much more petty. <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingrodent.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/how-bullshit-works-32309-zombies.html\">Flying Rodent put it best<\/a>, back when the whole sorry Gita Sahgal mess first came to light:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis excerpt represents the clearest statement of what I believe has motivated this whole sorry affair &#8211; a small group of like-minded journalists and bloggers determined to crush Amnesty, in the insane belief that a spontaneous uprising of somebody else will magic a deus ex machina human rights organisation into existence&#8230; that will say nasty things about Noam Chomsky.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bouncing off my own post yesterday, Alex proposes the Amnesty rule: I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen this happen when B actually had a point \u2013 time after bleeding time, it followed this exact course. I therefore intended to declare this as a law, like Godwin\u2019s Law. The Amnesty rule \u2013 anyone who asks \u201cwhy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[578,90],"tags":[1009,1008],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-wingnuts","tag-amnesty-international","tag-gita-sahgal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}