coldtea this is blatant whataboutism and I'm sure you can mount a better argument than that. (And I'm the one getting into trouble for wanting Americans to ackn

coldtea this is blatant whataboutism and I'm sure you can mount a better argument than that. (And I'm the one getting into trouble for wanting Americans to acknowledge their institional racism. And using all caps.) The parent isn't arguing that Americans are angels, but that it is well established that the Chinese state (which is a glove on the CCP) is responsible for pretty brutal and systematic repression (of Uyghurs in particular), but also dissidents. And despite the regular injustices America dishes out through love of greed, people are not disappeared because they have incorrect thought. >10k people were massacred in 1989. Millions were killed by famine during the cultural revolution. These are only contested in the same way that climate change is contested. One could argue that the 2003 invasion of iraq body count outweighs these sins, and ascribe malice to the US versus high intentions to the Party. But it doesn't change the fact that China is now, and has long been, an authoritarian state. In fact, it is now pre-eminent, the poster-child for post-capitalist autocracy. (But there is one one demonstrably wrong part of the grand-parent's post: calling China 'Communist'.)