Comment by stego-tech
16 hours ago
Oh, no, it's incredibly reprehensible what China's doing.
Just like it was reprehensible that America propped up the Iranian shah to ensure western oil interests were served. And reprehensible that the British Empire got the Chinese addicted to Opium to force more favorable trade agreements. Also reprehensible is the Cuban blockade imposed by America, which has prohibited the country from thriving or failing on its own merits and forced suffering onto its people.
It's all reprehensible, and it should all be held up lest folks get this notion that America is this infallible savior who can do no wrong. It's bad, and it should never happen, but it does and it will so long as people keep buying into Nationalist narratives like these.
You find it reprehensible but can't _just_ say that, you have to justify it with "and also the Americans and British did it". Yeah right.
Why does that bother you tho? Not having the moral ground changes the argument?
It just makes it weird. When the US does something bad and people go "but CHINA!" it's also weird.
Because it's very obvious whataboutism.
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