World's major human rights abusers giddy over Ferguson

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Source: Newsy

The images out of Ferguson, Missouri, this past week - replete with tear gas and police in riot gear - have not only prompted vigorous debates here in the U.S.

They're also provoking an almost giddy reaction from some of the world's most notorious human rights offenders.

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Still, while it may be easy to dismiss the judgment coming from Iran, China and Russia as hypocritical propaganda, how the U.S. is perceived abroad does have an impact.

Perhaps Julia Ioffe at The New Republic sums up the global criticism best: "Like it or not, this is what the world is seeing, the world to which we strive to be an example."

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[Chasstev365]

1. It's like the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 1960's

Just like firemen hosing down African American youths in Birmingham, AL. in 1963, the pictures of the Ferguson Mo. police make the USA look terrible to the rest of the world.

[Cha]

2. Yeah, this is the fucking republicon-US corporatemedia world at some of its dirtiest.. the goTp

would like it if the whole country were this way. Red city shit. White Power over a Black community.

Be giddy all you fucking want Russia-yeah Putin's a dictator, Iran, and China.. Ferguson is an example of your kind of assholes in charge.

[DonViejo]

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