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I think you misunderstood my sarcasm. Edited parent post to make it clearer, thanks. America invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and killed hundreds of thousands of unr
by yourbandsucks 8y ago
I think you misunderstood my sarcasm. Edited parent post to make it clearer, thanks.
America invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and killed hundreds of thousands of unrelated Arabs last time we were attacked by Central Asian Muslims.
Russia? The UK? They've done plenty too, in response to very specifically the same broad ethnic group.
So how come only China gets a daily 2 minutes' hate on hacker news?
Maybe it's nationalism and the thucydides trap?
EDIT responding to below, I'm rate limited, have a good night:
I'm saying that:
1) There's no genocide. There's a mass internment. You're proving my point about bias by using that word.
2) I'm not qualified to judge relative morality of mass internment of your own citizens vs mass death of foreigners.
But most importantly,
3) I'm not even talking about China so much as I am about hacker news. At least nationalist conservatives are honest about their motivations.
- hannasanarion 8y agoIf America's government were like Chinas, secret police would be knocking down your door for daring to criticize the government's warmaking decisions. Tangentially, the 9/11 attackers were Arab, not Central Asian, and the decision to invade Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, not even as an excuse. Regardless, you're trying to tell me that invading another country on poor pretenses and botching the occupation is totally the same thing as committing genocide of your own citizens, and then murdering anyone who says fie?