Over the course of the past half-century, virulent anti-Western ideology has become a permanent feature of our international institutions.
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ideology → become → institutions
One of the key inflection points in this transformation took place at a United Nations conference 25 years ago: the U.N.’s World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa.
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One → take → Durban
The conference’s stated purpose was to confront alleged racism and bigotry.
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purpose → confront → racism
Today, the United Nations touts the Durban Declaration — the ideological framework adopted at the conference — as "the U.N.’s blueprint to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance globally."
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Nations → tout → racism
In reality, it represented the instantiation of a set of radical ideas about race, history and Western civilization as the formal dogmas of our most powerful global institutions.
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it → represent → institutions
Since then, the anniversary of the Durban Declaration has frequently served as an opportunity for radical bureaucrats to reaffirm and double down on their anti-Western hatred.
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bureaucrats → serve → hatred
Nearly every five years since the conference, including next week, the U.N. commemorates and revels in the falsehoods and civilizational self-hatred that the conference has propagated across the international system.
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conference → include → system
The United States will not have any part in celebrating this poisonous legacy.
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States → have → legacy
In fact, we are urging countries to join us in rejecting this propaganda and taking a meaningful step forward in repairing the rot within the U.N.
The U.N.’s embrace of racial grievance, collective guilt, unapologetic antisemitism, and fervent hostility toward our shared Western heritage is fundamentally incompatible with the American way of life.
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embrace → urge → life
It runs counter to American virtues established 250 years ago.
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It → run → virtues
Americans need no instruction from international bureaucracies on the principle that men are created equal.
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men → need → principle
Two hundred and fifty years ago, our founders declared that our unalienable rights did not come from kings, emperors or any earthly government — least of all unelected globalist bureaucrats.
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rights → declare → all
They were inherent in man, endowed by God
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Because of the Durban conference, extremist ideologues who had long festered at the fringes of the international system were pulled under one tent, handed credentials and microphones, and given the imprimatur of the United Nations.
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who → fester → Nations
The result was radically anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Christian, antisemitic and dedicated to the destruction of the very civilization that gave birth to the United Nations itself.
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that → dedicate → Nations
Attendees used the event as a platform to demand reparations from the United States and other Western nations for slavery and colonialism.
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These calls were backed by speakers such as Fidel Castro, the brutal communist dictator of Cuba, who used the conference’s stage to denounce the West for its crimes of "conquest and colonization, of slavery, of the ruthless exploitation and the extermination of hundreds of millions of people."
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who → back → people
Yasser Arafat delivered a speech denouncing Israel as a racist colonial oppressor, while the conference’s NGO Forum called for Israel’s "complete and total isolation" through sanctions and embargoes, laying the groundwork for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement years before BDS became fashionable on Western campuses.
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BDS → deliver → campuses
Protestors outside circulated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and chanted that Hitler should have finished the job.
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Hitler → circulate → job
The United States walked out.
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Since then, the radicalism codified in Durban has metastasized and spread.
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The diversity regimes and frameworks promulgated from the Durban Declaration would inspire and codify new slates of discriminatory laws, further fomenting the racial strife, poverty, grievance and violence that has come to define life in modern South Africa.
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that → promulgate → Africa
What began in conference tents in South Africa made its way into U.N. chambers in New York and Geneva, universities, boardrooms, activist organizations, city governments and eventually the streets.
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Under the guise of promoting tolerance, inclusivity and human rights, captured institutions instead furthered the propagation of radical and ideological leftism.
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institutions → promote → leftism
Worse, adherence to this leftist radicalism became a litmus test for commerce and public life.
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adherence → become → commerce
Those who refused to submit to this new dogma were cast out.
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who → refuse → dogma
Those who embraced collective guilt were celebrated as "enlightened."
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We lost a generation of good work, good people and common sense along the way.
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The United Nations lost something too: credibility.
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Every time it returns to Durban, it poisons its own brand — and helps fuel the same conflicts it should be fighting to end.
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it → return → conflicts
President Trump has made clear: America will not apologize for being America — or perpetuate a system that teaches others to hate us for our success.
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that → make → success
The world has had 25 years to see where the Durban conference’s ideology leads.
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ideology → have → years
We must reject its poison of grievance politics and anti-Western hatred.
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It’s time to burn and bury the Durban conference’s legacy of Third-Worldism and hostility toward Western civilization.
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Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio, the United States will continue to speak out against this evil ideological project in the U.N. system or wherever it appears around the world.
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it → continue → world
Instead, we welcome allies, partners and friends: Join the United States in embracing pride in our past and confidence in our future — and rejecting the politics of shame, self-hatred and decline.
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we → welcome → shame
The Aporia
