Father Raymond de Souza Visits the Mausoleum of Human Rights (So You Don't Have To)

The good father found the mausoleum's contents stimulating if a bit of a hodge-podge:

Here in Winnipeg, I was shown an exhibition on genocides in which the museum was criticized for not characterizing the Indian residential schools as a genocide. I was struck by the neighbouring display of Mao’s Great Leap Forward, which killed more than 30-million people in just four years and thought that no single category could adequately include both realities. 

But you encounter that at every turn — religious liberty and gender diversity share the same gallery — and the museum’s success will depend upon visitors’ willingness to tolerate contradictory views and diverse readings of history in favour of exploring why the defence of human rights is so central to the politics of our time. Indeed, it is because human rights are so powerful a concept that everyone advances his cause under that banner. That larger reality is worth celebrating even if the particulars are objectionable. 

Au contraire, Father. The larger reality is that the concept has been hijacked by those with a larger agenda--by Islamists and other Zion-loathers at the UN; by petty bureaucrats who have been elevated to the heady ranks of commissioner/inquisitioner labouring for Canada's state-sanctioned "human rights" apparatus. In both instances, "human rights" is used as a blunt instrument with which to wield power and keep people in line. In other words, the opposite of what "human rights" is supposed to mean.

Those are the particulars, and, boy, are they objectionable. Even worse, they're grotesque. Unless the museum is prepared to address that "larger reality," and there is no indication that it ever will,  I'm afraid this high-falutin' edifice will remain worse than worthless.