Amnesty International has a long history of dismissing anti-colonial resistance on the one hand, and whitewashing western-led massacres on the other.

In 2015, Amnesty published several reports on the 2014 Gaza massacres according to which it condemned the Palestinian resistance while simultaneously under-reporting and under-emphsizing Israeli war crimes. Source 1 Source 2

Not to mention the organization's hesitancy to condemn Israel's genocide for the longest time possible.

In 1964, Amnesty disqualified Nelson Mandela as a priaoner of conscience for defending the African National Congress’s use of organized political violence as a necessary and ethical response in the struggle against apartheid. A similar fate happened to whistleblower Julian Assange. Source

Amnesty has repetitively shown anticommunist tendencies, for instance in its 1981 report which dismissed communists as prisoners of conscience because they wanted to overthrow the capitalist state. (Source: Tobias Kelly, A Divided Conscience, Public Culture 30: 3, 1 September 2018, p. 370).

Recently, Amnesty justified Trump's illegal meddling in Venezuela under the facade of human rights violations. Source

It is ironic how competent Amnesty is in documenting human rights violations in noncapitalist and non-Western states, but is simultaneously oblivious and very narrow-scoped in assessing the state of human rights in Western-aligned countries, namely their disastrous reporting of Pinochet's Chile. Read on this topic Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, Chapter 4.

If an organization is selective and counter intuitive in what it condemns as violence and whatnot, how could it be trusted? Notwithstanding the fact that Amnesty has a history of receiving funding from the United States State Department, the UK Department for International Development, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and many other shady governments and think tanks.

Unfortunately, it is not so much stupidity that interferes with such conversations as much as cognitive dissonance or arguing in bad faith.