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There's a time and place for that conversation and it isn't this.
by d3nj4l 6y ago
There's a time and place for that conversation and it isn't this.
- anm89 6y agowhy?
- Ensorceled 6y agoWhataboutism is a distraction. This article is about the issues in Hong Kong, "what about similar things happening in country x,y or z" is an attempt to derail this important conversation.
- luxurycommunism 6y agoNo it's not. It's a valid comparison of a global trend that national governments all over the world have been claiming more and more power than they actually need.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoBecause this conversation is about Hong Kong. And by trying to make this conversation about America's failings, you make it hard for us to have a conversation about Hong Kong. Keep watching. Within a very few days, there will be an article on HN about BLM, or about police monitoring of US citizens, or about the NSA evesdropping. If you want to criticize the US for having less freedom than the label says, feel free to do it there. (And there we can yell at people trying to bring up Hong Kong, telling them that they're off topic.)