Comment by droptablemain
5 years ago
How do you get off punishing normal people for the supposed crimes of their government? Are you going to go back and retroactively ban U.S. users for the many war crimes various regimes have committed over the years? Are you from the U.S.? Maybe you should just resign -- no point in you having a "platform" as an executive when your government has committed such atrocities around the world.
You can slam "whataboutism" all you want, but it successfully points out hypocrisy, double-standards and opportunism.
The point is that no two situations are exactly the same. And whataboutism dodges the details.
Maybe the CEO’s stance is: I won’t do business with a country that annexes another non-aggressive country through violence.
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Assigning different priority to things and spending energy on one issue but not another may be hypocrisy. We don't know in this situation. Just as you commenting here right now and not mentioning issues in Papua New Guinea doesn't make you a hypocrite not caring about human lives.