> There is no doubt that America's past is stained with human rights violations. However, to hold up America as equivalent to the current regimes in China or Ru

> There is no doubt that America's past is stained with human rights violations. However, to hold up America as equivalent to the current regimes in China or Russia (to name just two) is laughable by anyone with an understanding of history. That other countries exist with their own violations of humans rights doesn't negate any kind of criticism about the United State w.r.t. human rights. You can be critical of more than one thing at a time. > I'm sick of the moral relativism that you see when people point out American's shortfalls. You see words like "undemocratic", "despot", "dictatorship" thrown around by people who have little understanding what those words mean. Many people have a good idea of what those words mean and the United State's actions and policies can most certainly be described with those words throughout various times in its history.