• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    It’s very tiresome to see Americans turn a blind eye to concentration camps in their own backwards while claiming some moral imperative to liberate Xinjiang.

    Or Venezuela. Or North Korea. Or Cuba.

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      I am not doing that dipshit. You are doing the exact thing I was just talking about. Yes America is a shit show right now that doesn’t magically make the Chinese government not suck.

      America has concentration camps and is arresting innocent adults and children and filling those camps. It’s terrible and it does nothing to make China’s government suck less.

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        Yes America is a shit show right now that doesn’t magically make the Chinese government not suck.

        This is Whataboutism!

        Whataboutism! Whataboutism! Whataboutism!

        America has concentration camps and is arresting innocent adults and children and filling those camps.

        Help me. I am a 8 year old boy living in the illegitimate Yankee Capitalist regime. President Xi, our shelves are empty and we are hungry. I am asking you to liberate my state of Connecticut with your Chengdu J-20 Stealth air superiority fighters and your Dongfeng 41 Missiles.

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          Whataboutism is saying how evil America is and acting like that makes China less bad. Every asshole in these comments acting like China is “less evil” than the United States is barfing out whataboutisms.

          Trump is a pedophile. This doesn’t make China suck less it just makes America suck more.

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            They’re accusing you of whataboutism … by using whataboutism. There’s nothing to gain in talking to that kind of person.

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            Whataboutism is saying how evil America is and acting like that makes China less bad.

            Aaaaah! My mistake. I didn’t realize Whataboutism was America specific. All this time I thought it was a generic rhetorical technique where you try to deflect the blame for your own country’s missteps by insisting any other country was worse.

            But apparently America is exempt. Perhaps even… exceptional? Is there some kind of American Exceptionalism at play here? One in which America is beyond criticism?

            Trump is a pedophile. This doesn’t make China suck less

            Okay, but what if the Chinese economy promotes things Americans desire - green alternative energy, public health care and education accessible to residents without respect to income or ethnic background, a near totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry following the collapse of the landlord-backed government?

            Would that make China suck less?