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"Some people have it worse than you" is a fully general counterargument which can be applied to any complaint.

• mseebach 15y ago
  It's (sometimes) useful for providing perspective. The linked article thankfully avoids it, and kudos for that, but I've seen many mentions of protesters self-identifying with the Arab spring. In that perspective it seems reasonable to point out the vast difference in the scale of abuse rendered to the protesters.
  • _delirium 15y ago
    That was, oddly enough, used against the Egyptian protestors also--- many of them were comparatively well off, educated Egyptians, who were accused of ignoring how good their lives were in comparison to the lives of the average Arab, and of prioritizing middle-class issues like newspaper freedom over economic issues more important to the poor masses.