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tl;dr USA killing a million random people in Middle East is ok, because they are not American citizens. I’m still somewhat surprised how anyone can claim that
by trasz 5y ago
tl;dr USA killing a million random people in Middle East is ok, because they are not American citizens.
I’m still somewhat surprised how anyone can claim that and still be considered not a nazi.
- mjburgess 5y agoI'm surprised by how peoples ideological commitment to hating specific policies of their own country blinds them from making any objective comparison to other countries. Nothing I said here said any war is justified. My comment is to compare the US with other countries, rather than with its own internal standards of right-and-wrong. Whataboutism fails to be objective, in turning common properties of every state (eg., waging war) into grave sins of one's own -- and then actually grave sins of other states into trivialities. The states holding themselves to the highest moral standards in the world are western. Russians feel no sin to have invaded ukraine. The idea that whataboutism even has two legs to stand on in the west is a symptom of how poorly people understand other countries.
- trasz 5y agoIt’s only because American “moral standards” don’t care about slaughtering millions, as long as the victims are not Americans. Regarding Russia: remember what happened when Russians downed an airliner in Ukraine? They “disappeared” the perpetrators. Remember what happened when Americans downed an airliner in Iran? They decorated the perpetrators. This is some difference in moral standards indeed.