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This line of thinking just makes people sit on their hands. Individual citizens can always urge their Government to take actions against atrocities such as bein
by nafizh 7y ago
This line of thinking just makes people sit on their hands. Individual citizens can always urge their Government to take actions against atrocities such as being committed by China.
The fact that I, a non-citizen can live in US and call out its mass killing of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan denotes the difference between US and China.
- pinkfoot 7y agoI am sure the relatives of the mass killings in Iraq and Afghanistan appreciate this subtle difference.
- throwaway1997 7y agoThis is an example of whataboutery, a fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- pinkfoot 7y agoNot its not, but even if it was - so what? Since when did pointing out double standards become trivially dismissable by a single word? Its seems to be a very recent American phenomenon. Where I live it is shameful and very damaging to one's credibility to be exposed for maintaining double standards.