• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 days ago

    When most leftists say ‘human rights’ though, they mean the general concept, not international institutions.

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      True. At the minimum, it’s a good way of agitation. Telling a stranger “housing is a human right” for example will pull more people into your movement than telling them “rights are a bourgeois concept and written law (as opposed to community mediation) will never be just but always reproduce existing hierarchies”