Rex Tillerson’s State Department: Human Rights? Big Deal!
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By Heather Digby Parton, Salon
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks with delegates as he arrives to attend the UN Security Council Ministerial Briefing on Non-Proliferation and the DPRK, at the United Nations, on December 15, 2017, in New York. (Photo: EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ / AFP / Getty Images)
The US has long had a disconnect between ideals and reality when it comes to human rights. After all, the country was founded on the idea of the inalienable right to life, liberty and happiness, even as it held slaves and stole the land of its Native inhabitants in a genocidal rampage. There were Red scares, Jim Crow, deportations, internment and mass incarceration, some of it still happening today. And that's just what we did in our own country. Indeed, it's obvious that t...