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Singlehandedly one of the best things to come out of Amnesty's work. A survey by @AmnestyUK shows 'only 33% agreed that we should uphold the human rights of “those that wish us harm” and 43% agreed that “sometimes human rights have to be relaxed'. https://twitter.com/dlgriffiths/status/1287796424172765189
It isn't about acquiescing to the denial of rights. It's about reminding everyone that we all have rights - and they are indivisible, just as we are indivisible from each other. Solidarity isn't fighting for one group's rights in isolation; it has transformative impacts for all.
It's also not about centring ourselves in each other's struggle, but learning that someone else's struggle is not in conflict with yours in the end. The model for human rights is not reductive; no one can take away your rights. But someone can prevent your access to them.
This is why I really rate @the_hope_guy and his work on strategic hope-based communication. This report supports a lot of that work. If we repeatedly speak in divisive ways, we perpetuate divides. Speaking less divisively is not in conflict with maintaining accountability.
We can and must do both. We must remind people of their agency and the hope they can harness, without rubber-stamping language that reduces accountability. We can do this!
