I don’t actively oppose human rights; I just don’t think they work as an idea or a social institution. They don’t protect people from harm in any real meaningful capacity, only love and connection does, and I support stuff that actually does demonstrably protect people.

It really is better to just be one of the populars so no one wants to hurt you. And to have connections so everyone else is dependent on you in some capacity, so people actively suffer if they do try to hurt you.

Human rights cannot and never have accomplished either of those for anyone. We’re not a more peaceful world because of human rights; the same tragedies they were supposed to prevent prevailed and now fascism is taking over the world, and in the next decade we’re going to have the biggest genocides the world has ever seen.

And those same human rights are invoked to tie victims’ hands behind their backs whenever they try to fight back. They’re accused of violating their perpetrator’s human rights and of being equivalent to their oppressor by trying to avenge themselves or get rid of them or even just hold them accountable.

Human rights are a meaningless, unhelpful joke.