For Real: Human Rights Watch Deems Trump a Threat

Human Rights Watch has shown once again what a waste a time it is.

Human Rights Watch has singled out President-elect Donald Trump as a threat to human rights after analyzing his campaign. In a 687-page report published this week, the nonprofit watchdog has called Trump’s campaign “a vivid illustration of the politics of intolerance.” “Donald Trump’s election as US president after a campaign fomenting hatred and intolerance, and the rising influence of political parties in Europe that reject universal rights, have put the postwar human rights system at risk,” the group said in a statement on Friday.

The report, titled “Demagogues Threaten Human Rights,” said that Trump’s “campaign floated proposals that would harm millions of people, including plans to engage in massive deportations of immigrants, to curtail women’s rights and media freedoms, and to use torture.” Kenneth Roth, executive director of HRW, said in his introduction to the report, that Trump joins the ranks of other populist politicians who “seek power through appeals to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and nativism.” Read more at HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH.