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What-aboutism at its finest.

• pphysch 5y ago
  "Whataboutism" remains one of the most self-destructive inventions of Cold War propaganda. Dismissing context because it makes "your side" look hypocritical or undermines a narrative (in this case, "CCP is uniquely evil") is no way to understand geopolitics.
  • toxik 5y ago
    I, and HN it seems, disagree. Israel’s anti-BDS tactics provided little interesting context while moving the discussion to an unrelated topic.
    • pphysch 5y ago
      It is extremely relevant to provide context for what the baseline/expected behavior is when discussing a particular instance of it. Otherwise, false assumptions replace the facts: "US allies would never interfere with our domestic education system, only bad guys do that!".