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Look, there's a reason China gets the brunt of our ire, and it's not because US based companies are particularly laudable. It's more that China is notorious for
by fennecfoxen 6y ago
Look, there's a reason China gets the brunt of our ire, and it's not because US based companies are particularly laudable. It's more that China is notorious for its international campaigns to infiltrate foreign institutions, surveil its diaspora, its dissidents, and its political enemies, and use tools like blackmail and threats to apply pressure, using any means possible, to achieve its policy goals, often on foreign soil. China is also noted for its campaigns of systematic repression. When you are in the business of rounding up an ethnic minority for genocide, it does tends to color the discussion.
You can arrange words that make the US and China sound morally equivalent, but when you actually look into it to compare the realities in detail, you see how vapid and empty this approach is.
- sirmoveon 6y agoYes, yes. CCP China very bad. But US bunch of hypocrites, historically speaking. In my opinion, this is a great opportunity for the world to use the situation as leverage to keep them both accountable, rather than defend one over the other.
- newen 6y agoThe US does all of these things. Remember the CIA? One million Iraqis killed by the US. What is that if not genocide. Currently, civilians are being killed by the US every day with their bombings. More civilians being killed every day by their sanctions. It’s genocide.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoSanctions on places like Iran Venezuela are "genocide" in the same sense that silence is violence, i.e. when you don't believe words have meaning, and when you seek to obscure rather than enlighten.