On December 16, 2020, the United Nations General Assembly held a vote on adopting a policy which states that they, that is the member states, agree on ‘Combating glorification of Nazism, neo‑Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance’. This is something I think the majority of the world, barring Nazi sympathisers, agree with.
The policy was adopted, overwhelmingly so, and as I say, it is not news that countries agree Nazism is bad. But what is news, shocking, revealing, exposing what has long been suspected and spoken about but never really taken seriously, is that out of 186 nations, 130 voted yes, 50 abstained and two voted against.
What kind of monster votes against condemning Nazism and its iterations? What kind of coward or crypto-Nazi decides to sit on the fence and abstain in a vote which is condemning the evil ideology which necessitated the creation of the UN? What justification can be given for supping with evil, for stating that gas chambers for the Untermensch is good? What justification can be given for abstaining in such a vote which, at the end of the day, simply seeks to reaffirm our oneness as a people, even if it is only being on watch against fascism and its outcomes?
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