Rosie O’Donnell on Egypt: America Needs to Get Over Our ‘Ethnocentric Blind Spot,’ Acknowledge Our Child Sex Slaves
The potentially democratic developments in Egypt have inspired geopolitical musings from Rosie O'Donnell on her Sirius/XM radio show. Predictably, what most offends Rosie in the current environment is her usual emphasis: America should never lecture about democracy and so on, because we aren't better than anyone else: When we only judge other nations about their human-rights violations and don't really look at our own, when we don't spend the time on the news talking about the problems in American culture and what the results of them have been on our children, on our society…Things like the homeless rate, the divorce rate…corporate corruption…what we are guilty of here. We only look at someone else and say, 'Look at what's wrong with their culture'…I think it puts us in a really ethnocentric blind spot. Rosie O'Donnell is now listing divorce and homelessness in the category of “human rights violations” –
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