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The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by fartfeatures »

fanwood wrote: post #50
lvl155 wrote: post #40

And it’s wild to think that more than 1/3 of the devs I’ve met in my life support this admin. These are seemingly smart people. The past 10 years or so made me realize I don’t know anything about human nature or intellect. Edit: I am in no way saying conservatism is bad and liberalism is good. I have my values in both.

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The amount of Argumentum ad Nazium / Reductio ad Hitlerum going around at the moment is getting really tiresome.

Can we stick to the actual issues instead of invoking Nazis? It’s not helping the discussion.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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aarestad wrote: post #37
JKCalhoun wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO – which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said." I have come to think of UNESCO with regard to their World Heritage sites (I saw in the news that Neuschwanstein was just recently added), but one of m…

"woke" deployed as a noun really rankles me. But then, I guess that's the point eh - own those snowflakes, nothing matters, lol.

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Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by akashshah87 »

“The U.S. began defunding UNESCO under Obama after it admitted Palestine as a full member—and then withdrew entirely during Trump’s first term.” — [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/world/europe/us-withdraw-...)

This isn’t just a blip, but part of a long-term downward trajectory in U.S. and UNESCO relations.

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Post by asah »

monkeyelite wrote: post #58
fanwood wrote: post #50

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An entire set of countries actually - no division between intelligence. It was a global cultural phenomenon.

to be fair, there was lots of resistance within those countries, but not enough to overcome the Guys With Guns(tm).

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Post by yesfitz »

bix6 wrote: post #49

From 2023, the program and budget for 2024/2025 showing priorities etc. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385118

And the US's contributions to the specific beneficiary countries/programs by Quarter: https://core.unesco.org/en/country/usa/contribution?biennium...

(Breakdown by beneficiary country & program is at the bottom of the page.)

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Post by ceejayoz »

cbeach wrote: post #56
eclecticfrank wrote: post #34

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> There is no context that justifies UNESCO focussing on criticism of Israel's self defence, as opposed to focussing on Hamas's attrocity that started the war (or Putin etc)

Sure there is. Only one is still actively happening, and it's the one that's killed 20-60x as many civilians, depending on whose estimates you follow.

> There is no context that justifies UNESCO rebranding Jewish holy places as “Palestinian World Heritage sites.” Jews existed in the region for more than a thousand years before the violent Islamic conquest and colonisation.

The context there is simple; quite a few places are holy to more than one religion. Some are holy to Palestinians; some are in Palestinian territories, like the Church of the Nativity.

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