Corrección Política y Derechos Humanos

Hace unos días me llegó un mensaje de mail juntando firmas para meter a la cárcel a Bussi, el ex gobernador de Tucumán acusado de violaciones a los Derechos Humanos.

Lo interesante de todo esto es que la persona que me lo mandó es un clásico argentino defensor a ultranza del régimen cubano y apologista de Castro, y violento opositor a la deposición de Saddam en Irak.

No es mi intención con esto justificar los crímenes ni los excesos de Bussi, pero no deja de ser llamativo el doble estándar moral. Como dice el autor de este artículo, pareciera que nos escandalizan las violaciones a los Derechos Humanos sólo si son políticamente incorrectas:

A leftist judge in Spain orders the arrest of a pathetic, near-senile Gen. Augusto Pinochet eight years after he's left office, and becomes a human rights hero -- a classic example of the left morally grandstanding in the name of victims of dictatorships long gone. Yet for the victims of contemporary monsters still actively killing and oppressing -- Khomeini and his successors, the Assads of Syria and, until yesterday, Hussein and his sons -- nothing. No sympathy. No action. Indeed, virulent hostility to America's courageous and dangerous attempt at rescue.

The international left's concern for human rights turns out to be nothing more than a useful weapon for its anti-Americanism. Jeane Kirkpatrick pointed out this selective concern for the victims of U.S. allies (such as Chile) 25 years ago. After the Cold War, the hypocrisy continues. For which Arab people do European hearts burn? The Palestinians. Why? Because that permits the vilification of Israel -- an outpost of Western democracy and, even worse, a staunch U.S. ally. Championing suffering Iraqis, Syrians and Lebanese offers no such satisfaction. Hence, silence.