In hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival

"Human rights are universal, and all governments must protect and promote them."

It is so absurd for the official Twitter account of US Secretary of State to utter these words, as the US government maintains an extremely bad record of human rights violations and abuses.

In 2020 alone there were many. Everybody must remember George Floyd and his last words "I can’t breathe". He is only one of the more than 300 African Americans killed by police in the US in 2020, as shown by mappingpoliceviolence.org. The same source shows that US police took lives almost every day with only 18 exceptions.

Now, with the year 2021 entering its sixth month, US police have killed 429 people already.

The same year saw the US government failing in its duty to protect people from the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in deaths that far exceed those of World War II. The latest data shows that the deaths in US reached 595,401.

After vaccine production began, the US also purchased far more vaccines than needed even though people in Africa and many other countries face the same threat. They don’t care about lives at all.

On Jan 6, conflicts broke out between US protesters and US police, which led to at least five people being killed, over 50 policemen wounded, and more than 100 people arrested.

The same US politicians who crushed "rioters" at home are happy to play up riots elsewhere in the world. When riots happened in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2019, they called it "A beautiful sight to behold", and they never want that "beautiful sight" to appear in their own home. The same US politicians plotted and supported the Arab Spring that left millions of refugees in the Middle East, but they never want their homeland to experience such a "spring".

The fact is that US politicians do not care about democracy or human rights anywhere in this world. They even do not care about lives considering the large number of deaths caused by their negligent handling of the pandemic. All they want, by uttering these beautiful words, is to incite a "color revolution" in countries that they don’t like. The photo of the political unit chief of the US Consulate General to Hong Kong Julie Eadeh meeting Hong Kong riot leaders during the riots is best evidence of their plot.

It was in the 1850s that the US citizen Frederick Douglass famously said: "For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."

One and a half centuries have passed since then. Please do not let that quote continue to apply.