Paul Elam, alleged “men’s human rights” activist
Funny story: Mike Buchanan of the Justice for Men and Boys party — you remember, the tiny British partylet that managed to win literally 0.0007% of the vote in the last UK elections — is trying to organize a men’s rights conference in London.
He recently approached Amnesty International to see if he could rent one of the rooms in their London headquarters for his little shindig. They said no, because AI is a feminist organization, and Buchanan’s little party has more or less declared war on feminism.
Paul Elam — America’s most embarrassing Men’s Rights Activist — apparently thinks that Amnesty’s “no” to Buchanan is a greater violation of human rights than police torture, political imprisonment, and all the other human rights abuses the organization has fought for decades to eliminate.
In a YouTube video, Elam — a transcontinental pal of Buchanan — has accused Amnesty International of a “pretty brazen display of bigotry.” declaring that the venerable human rights organization only cares about human rights “if you have a vagina and align yourself to the correct political ideology.”
The perpetually angry Elam informs us that
this is the moment in time when Amnesty International has gone on the record subscribing to the narrative that men are not human beings and therefore not recognized as having human rights issues.
He urges people not to support “a human rights advocacy group that fails to recognize the humanity of half the population.”
By that he means Amnesty International, not his own hateful gang.
AI’s alleged failure “to recognize the humanity of half the population” might come as something of a surprise to these guys:
VICTORY! #ReggieClemons conviction overturned & death sentence thrown out by #Missouri Supreme Court. #DeathPenalty pic.twitter.com/uodUmO7sJ0
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) November 24, 2015
THANK YOU to all who demanded justice & helped secure Filep Karma's long-overdue release! https://t.co/Mfled087Ia pic.twitter.com/F5YhUnMGMO
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) November 20, 2015
#AlbertWoodfox remains trapped in 40+ yrs of solitary confinement & a flawed legal process. https://t.co/KIDfgrA4yW pic.twitter.com/AsOulBLXs9
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) November 10, 2015
#Malaysia MUST drop absurd charges against cartoonist facing decades in jail for tweets https://t.co/sDRQe4J92S #W4R pic.twitter.com/5yfjrhsSGY
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) November 5, 2015
BREAKING: #ShakerAamer released from #Guantanamo after being held for over 13 years. https://t.co/i9SqKASw3y pic.twitter.com/80fLq63BzW
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) October 30, 2015
Journalism is NOT a crime. #Myanmar must release 5 journalists jailed for doing their job. https://t.co/ESGS22P4jG pic.twitter.com/7um8rtThcl
— AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) October 29, 2015
And these are just a few of the thousands of men the organization has campaigned for over the course of many decades of dedicated and diligent work. Amnesty International literally saves men’s lives.
The group also campaigns on behalf of 13-year-old girls forced to marry 70-year-old men, rape survivors forced to marry their rapists, and women sexually tortured by police officers. Because AI recognizes that, you know, women have human rights too.
Amnesty International stands up for oppressed people, regardless of gender, often at great risk.
Mike Buchanan, by contrast, used his platform as a political candidate in the last elections to inform potential voters that marriage is “slavery for men,” that feminists are “hatchet-faced miserable women” and that men groping women’s bottoms without their permission is no big deal, if you think about it. His stance on these and other crucial men’s human rights issues won him 153 votes. Not 153,000. 153.
As for Elam’s A Voice for Men gang, well, aside from calling women “bitches” and worse, slandering people on Twitter, and running a website that loses traffic and influence by the day, AVFM’s only real-world accomplishment in the last year or so has been holding a small retreat for its male “actvists” in which said activists got drunk and made a video in which they made assorted crude sexual remarks about several feminist writers.
Elam was apparently so proud of his drunken performance in this video that he posted it online. And here it is, because I never get tired of reposting this wondrous thing.
That’s the weirdest bit of “human rights activism” I’ve ever seen.