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> This lets them say "See! the Chinese are worse!" Seriously? Even if one believes in this Chinese colonialism thing, there's no way in hell partial economic c
by zmw 8y ago
> This lets them say "See! the Chinese are worse!"
Seriously? Even if one believes in this Chinese colonialism thing, there's no way in hell partial economic control is worse than genocides and slavery that accompanied European colonialism in the past.
- kazinator 8y agoThat's a bit of a tu quoque fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
- zmw 8y agoUnlike the fallacy you linked, which is comparing apples to oranges, I made a direct comparison of "colonialism" to colonialism, in response to a direct comparison of "colonialism" to colonialism. Not every comparison is whataboutism, you know.
- kazinator 8y agoThe relevance can be clarified if we frame it like this: "My economic control in a foreign nation is okay because you're lynching negroes (or did so in the past)."
- zmw 8y agogp: Europeans feel guilty about the colonial past, so they try very hard to make the Chinese look worse. me: How can it be worse? Neither gp nor me mentioned anything being "okay", or blamed any party for completely irrelevant crimes (lynching or whatever). Might need to brush up on reading comprehension.