You're missing the point. My misrepresentation, rhetorical or otherwise, of the exact actions that you implied qualified them as an authority on the issue is quite irrelevant - otherwise I would not have done it. The point is that
nothing in personal experience makes
anyone an authority on
any point to such a degree that simply saying "You're wrong, go ask them!" is a less-than-ridiculous contribution to a discussion pertaining to it.
Cubans came in from a place where government was somewhat more malevolent than yours, but this hardly translates elegantly into the individual somehow 'having' or 'not having' 'rights'. There's been worse places to live than theirs, there will be better ones than yours - such arbitrary scaling does not warrant declaring a single redeeming quality to be 1/0 true or false, nor make valid the odd logic of attributing the tendency of external factors to
not infringe upon an individual as a quality to that individual's person.
That's a somewhat narrow interpretation of this discussion; the question as to what rights are is entirely generic in nature; it's merely the america-central examples of popular but inadequate
answers that seem to have gone and activated your patriotonin receptors.
Not that your argument would be useful if the debate
did pertain exclusively to america, mind - "You're not an american so you need to shut up about us" is still an exceptionally dumb thing to say when all its premises are true, as perhaps demonstrated by your own semi-informed talking about Cuba - but in this case I'm getting the impression that you're missing the crux of your own indignation.
It is rather too fragile for that, as I was pointing out. Also, you really should not use adjectives
on adjectives; it entirely ruins the flow of your insult.
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