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Because Britain and Spain colonized Hawaii in the 1500s nobody can criticize China for using forced labor in the 2020s? That takes some serious mental gymnastic
by jjcon 6y ago
Because Britain and Spain colonized Hawaii in the 1500s nobody can criticize China for using forced labor in the 2020s? That takes some serious mental gymnastics.
- gedy 6y agoIt makes sense when viewed as: people only care about us vs them tribal crap. The modern era and access to information just puts a veneer of "reasoning" for justifying their own BS.
- Ericson2314 6y agoAre you thinking of the Philipines or Puerto Rico? Hawaii was never colonized by the Spanish. That said, I don't mind to refute the larger point. In fact, I would make Puerto Rico independent in conjunction with recognizing Taiwan.
- platinumrad 6y agoPuerto Rico should be granted statehood, not independence, unless you want it to be an impoverished client of the United States.
- jakeva 6y agoUnlike how it is now?
- platinumrad 6y agoIt might have been clearer for "be" to be "remain".
- Ericson2314 6y agoI responded to your other post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558926. It's more important to valorize independence regardless of what's actually best for Puerto Rico. Any paternalism no matter how honestly felt will defeat the purpose of this gesture. My proposal is "bleeding heart realpolitik", and bound to thus illicit confusion in the US.
- jjcon 6y agoOnly 5% of Puerto Ricans want independence, in recent years there has been a push towards statehood though (and now a majority support statehood over their current status of free association) https://web.archive.org/web/20121109002017/http://div2.ceepur.org/REYDI_NocheDelEvento/index.html#es/default/CONDICION_POLITICA_TERRITORIAL_ACTUAL_ISLA.xml https://web.archive.org/web/20121109002017/http://div2.ceepu...