Proportionate? The US has killed 4 million Vietnamese and poisoned large parts of the country with chemical weapons.

I doubt that their "regime" has ever done something comparable.

How many millions did any Vietnamese government in past or present kill in the middle east. How many terrorist organizations are currently run out of Hanoi in comparison to those run out of Washington?

Does the Vietnamese president sign kill lists and run torture camps across the globe?

Eh, I didn't really exclude it - I noted it. I was trying to show that abuses of human rights aren't limited solely to political affiliation and assembly.

And yes, arguments of proportion cut both ways - look at the incarceration rates in the US, a huge proportion of which is for a victimless crime (possessing drugs). Vietnam also doesn't go pounding its military around the world - there are hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, all due to a war started to shore up domestic support in the US, for example.

Human rights extend to all humans, not just citizens of the state in question.

Edit: I guess my fundamental point is that the implication was that the HRC would do better if the US was a member, based on members' track records. But the US's track record isn't particularly good either (particularly in regard to non-US citizens)

In the US it also takes other shapes. Incarceration rates at 1% of the population, including something which could be argued is corporate slavery, with a heavy bias for a particular portion of the population.

If you aren't part of that demographic it may not seem so bad. But the numbers are absolutely awful.