编者按：美国前白人警察德雷克·肖万被控杀害非裔男子乔治·弗洛伊德一案于当地时间4月20日宣判，肖万被控的谋杀和过失杀人等三项罪名全部成立。美国众议院议长佩洛西表示，“感谢”弗洛伊德为追求正义而“牺牲”了自己的生命。对此，美国网友称， 将受害标榜为牺牲？太虚伪了……对于华盛顿“精心”设置的叙事，美国媒体又作何反应？
“华盛顿精心设计了自己的叙事，这些叙事被美国新闻机构普遍接受，它们自认为能分得清舆论宣传和事实真相。
Washington has crafted its ownnarrative, one universally accepted by American news organizations that believe they can tell the difference between propaganda and truth.” 6park.com
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两个多月前，拜登总统上任时，谈到要改善美国与多个国家的外交关系，其中就包括中国。
President Biden entered office a little more than two months ago talking about improving the diplomatic relationship between the United States and multiple nations, China among them.
然而时至今日，鲜有改变。事实上，现在华盛顿和北京之间的关系可能比唐纳德·特朗普在位时更糟糕。
But so far, little has changed. In fact, the relationship now between Washington and Beijing might be worse than it waswhen Donald Trump was in the White House. 6park.com
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△ 3月中旬，中美官员在阿拉斯加的安克雷奇举行了一系列会议。中国代表团成员刚刚入座就受到美方关于人权、网络攻击和经济等问题的指责。美国声称，所有这些都体现了中国在力图破坏世界“有章可循的秩序”。但中方对这一指责表示强烈反对。
American and Chinese officials held a series of meetings in Anchorage, Alaska, in the middle of March. The various officials had barely settled into their seats before the Chinese delegation was on the receiving end of a rebuke from the American side about human rights, cyber-attacks and economics, all of which Washington claimed were efforts by Beijing to undermine the world’s “rules-basedorder.” That rebuke, of course, met with a strong rebuff from the Chinese side. 6park.com
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△3月30日，美国国务卿布林肯在国务院举行记者会，介绍新公布的人权报告。
会谈后不久，美国发布了最新的人权报告。报告将中国在新疆的行为定义为“种族灭绝和反人类罪行”。
Shortly after the diplomats returned totheir home countries, the U.S. announced its latest human rights report. In it, China’s actions in Xinjiang were defined as “genocide and crimes against humanity.”
报告的内容还是那些陈词滥调，对中国的控诉也像是东拼西凑来的，而援引的内容也多是对中国带有厌恶倾向（并不客观）的观点。
On one hand, there is little in the report that can be considered new; the allegations against China seem to be a loosely stitched combination of sources, many of whom would appear to already be predisposed to disliking China.
这份国务院报告中的观点被一家又一家美国媒体机构传播，而这些媒体对材料内容的真实性几乎没有质疑。
However, the material contained in the State Department report was disseminated by one U.S. media agency after another with scant questioning of its veracity.
可悲的是，逐利的商业媒体对美国当局的盲目追从，在过去已经造成了灾难性的后果。举个例子，有人记得美国媒体迅速支持前国务卿科林·鲍威尔关于萨达姆·侯赛因在伊拉克藏匿大规模杀伤性武器的断言吗？那个“真相”经受住了时间的考验吗？（在那场由美国发起的战争中），死亡和混乱接踵而至。此后几乎20年的时间里，伊拉克（局势）并没有因此获得任何稳定的保障。（面对事实），美国的新闻工作者本应吸取教训，要求官方提供更多的可供核实的证据，但显然，他们并没有。
Sadly, this blind acceptance of U.S.authority by the profit-driven corporate media has had disastrous consequencesin the past. As just one example, does anyone remember when the U.S. media quickly gave support to former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s assertions that Saddam Hussein was stashing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? That “truth” withstood the test of time, did it not? The war, the death, and the chaos that ensued — and none of it has provided Iraq any stability almost 20 years later — ought to have convinced American journalists to forever more demand verifiable evidence from official sources. Apparently not. 6park.com
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美国国务院发布关于新疆的报告产生了他们没有预料到的结果——世界关注到了美国不光彩的人权记录，但美国媒体却不承认这一点。“黑命贵”运动呼吁人们关注警察对黑人施暴这段记录在册的可怕历史。如今，对明尼苏达阿波利斯市对那名被控杀害黑人弗洛伊德的白人警察的审判已经开始，这个运动也再次成为焦点。
The timing of the State Department report’s release about Xinjiang had the unintended effect of reminding the world of America’s pitiful human rights record, which the American media did not acknowledge. The Black Lives Matter movement, calling attention to the horrific— and documented — history of police brutality against Blacks, was again in the spotlight because the highly anticipated trial of a white Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer charged with killing George Floyd, who was Black, was about to begin. 6park.com
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△ 此外，不久前发生在美国佐治亚州的枪击案，造成8人死亡，其中6名为亚裔女性。这些案件无不提示着人们关于美国仇视华裔和其他亚裔人口的记忆。与此同时，人道主义灾难也在美墨边境持续上演。针对试图进入美国的移民，美国竟出台了将这些儿童与其父母分离的政策，这个做法无比残忍。
In addition, the brutal murders of eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were fresh in Americans’ minds and prompted memories of the animus toward Chinese and others of Asian ancestry. And a humanitarian disaster continues to play out along the U.S.-Mexico border with the most awful element of recent American policy about migrants seeking entry into the U.S. being the separation of children from their parents.
美国的人权说教颇显空洞。毫不奇怪，中国并不是唯一一个认识到美国深陷其自身人权风暴的国家。而为了淡化来自外界的在人权问题上的批评，美国国务卿承认了美国在这方面的失败。他说，美国准备“公开”解决自己的问题，但这似乎又是一项对中国的变相指责。
A human rights lecture from the United States seems rather empty at the moment. It was not surprising, therefore, that China was not alone in recognizing the U.S. remains neck deep in its own human rights storm. Attempting to blunt such criticism, the U.S. Secretary of State acknowledged America’s failings in this area. He said America was prepared to tackle its problems in the open, yet another criticism of China that seemed unnecessary.
最近，一个接一个的采访和一个又一个关于新疆的故事从中国传来。这些故事很快被美国一家新闻机构斥为“舆论宣传”。
One interview after another and one story after another in recent days has come from China about Xinjiang. Those storylines were quickly dismissed by one U.S. news organization as propaganda.
华盛顿精心设计了自己的叙事，这个叙事被美国新闻机构普遍接受。它们自认为能分得清舆论宣传和事实真相。 但历史表明，它们分不清楚。
Washington has crafted its own narrative, one universally accepted by American news organizations that believe they can tell the difference between propaganda and truth. There is a long history to suggest they cannot. 6park.com
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作者 | 安东尼·莫雷蒂（By Anthony Moretti）
美国罗伯特·莫里斯大学信息学、人文和社会科学学院副教授
原标题
Washington’s Human Rights Report Is a Self-Narrative for Its Own Interests