‘This is a joke, right?’ Look who the United Nations just put on a Human Rights Council panel (Hint: ‘Orwell laughs’)

Sadly, no, this isn’t a joke, and it comes with a beverage warning:

BREAKING: #China joins U.N. Human Rights Council panel, where it will help select next world monitors on freedom of speech, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention—and on health. @hillelneuer: "It's like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief."https://t.co/E2vYfYcNcD pic.twitter.com/1UkF5T4MHU

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) April 3, 2020

And yet the U.N. leadership are baffled as to why they’re viewed with derision by so many people?

China has been appointed to an elite United Nations human rights group despite the country's routine abuse of human rights, stifling of free speech, and imprisonment of dissidents.. #Outrageous https://t.co/UXUUT4hDo4

— Richard James (@skisidjames) April 3, 2020

And China, which 'disappears' doctors and forces #Uighurs into concentration camps, has just been appointed to the Consultative Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which monitors freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and.. 'disappearances'. https://t.co/Y9w3JGCCyS

— Adrian Hilton (@Adrian_Hilton) April 4, 2020

The UN sucks – again

— Glenn Amurgis (@gamurgis) April 4, 2020

The inmates are running the asylum. https://t.co/b4GoAseZg4

— Undoomed (@Undoomed) April 4, 2020

April fool's day was yesterday!
The most dishonest regime monitoring on freedom of speech????

— Nahid Ghani (@NahidGhn) April 3, 2020

Orwell laughs https://t.co/zzHVfpUhS0

— Mo-rantined (@molratty) April 4, 2020

We are living in a Monty Python film. https://t.co/mZAzYYqGXp

— In Lockdown Caracal ?? (@ConCaracal) April 4, 2020

Just when you thought the UN Human Rights Council could not get any more depraved, it proves me wrong. https://t.co/pNwcctoEHa

— David Vance (@DVATW) April 4, 2020

After all this is over and we're reevaluating everything, let's figure out why we're in such a corrupt and dangerous organization, and why we allow it to fester in our country

(This tweet dedicated to the million Uyghur Muslims in Chinese concentration camps) https://t.co/QvmHjiNqSy

— Cameron Gray @ Home til June 10th (@Cameron_Gray) April 4, 2020

The U.N. has been covering themselves in as much glory as the mainstream media lately.