# Obama in Africa

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-africa/726178>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 25, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-africa/726178 "2015-07-25T19:40:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-africa/726178/61 "2015-07-28T07:38:26Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> If I send you money, will you promise never to help me, ever again.

Don’t understand so I’ll default to a polite chuckle.

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-africa/726178/62 "2015-07-28T14:23:39Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> “It’s midnight, Dr. Schweitzer.”

You are the nerdiest nerd who ever nerded. You know that, right?  
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**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-africa/726178/63 "2015-07-28T16:55:35Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Are you implying that China’s record of human rights abuses is not significantly worse than the United States’? Would you care to back up that assertion at all?

Sorry just caught this post.

If I was implying then I apologise, it was intended to be clearer than that: I don’t know too much about China’s recent record on human rights except to be left with a sense they’re not too understanding of business crimes like fraud, corruption, different kinds of bribery, etc.

So I guess if you were a Wall Street banker or US style politician, you’d have trouble operating in China.

All I know about US human rights abuse is the stuff everyone knows - institutionalised torture, black op sites, disappearing people, Abu Graib, Guantanamo, drones killing school children and other civilians, bombing weddings in Afghanistan, mass surveillance of its own people, oppression of minorities, mass imprisonment of minorities, 25% of the worlds prisoners/5% of the worlds population, etc.

Wasn’t there also something about US states are having trouble killing prisoners because the rest of the world doesn’t want to sell them the means.

The UN seems to know more: [UN Issues Scathing Assessment of US Human Rights Record](https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/un-issues-scathing-assessment-us-human-rights-record):

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> The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a scathing report today, consisting of 348 recommendations that address myriad human rights violations in the United States

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-africa/726178/64 "2015-07-28T17:04:02Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> Do carry on, though.

When I said “do carry on,” I meant apologize for making shit up and _then_ carry on.

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