Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you still speak as if they are two equally bad supervillains doing equally bad stuff around the world. that’s not how this works.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    equating them is dishonest

    Criticizing one of them on it’s individual merits is very obviously not the same thing as equating both of them.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Criticizing one of them on it’s individual merits

      then why is doing it to the us “whataboutism”?

      yes. it is very deflective to go both sides bad when only one of them is bad. especially considering the context of the fucking world is held hostage by the us and china seems to be the only country really standing up to it.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        then why is doing it to the us “whataboutism”?

        I don’t know how to be any more clear this. Using whataboutism is using whataboutism. If I talk about China and you say “but what about US!”, that’s a whataboutism, because we’re not talking about the US. And vise versa. It’s a clear attempt to excuse and deflect blame away from the topic at hand and onto someone else.

        it is very deflective to go both sides bad

        I’m glad you finally understand.

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