Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoyou still speak as if they are two equally bad supervillains doing equally bad stuff around the world. that’s not how this works.
Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoyou still speak as if they are two equally bad supervillains doing equally bad stuff around the world. that’s not how this works.
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Criticizing one of them on it’s individual merits is very obviously not the same thing as equating both of them.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
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.
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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.
I’m glad you finally understand.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
and you still don’t seem to get that condemning “rampant ccp propaganda!” when we praise it’s accomplishments is not honest, and that neither country is in a vacuum.
today’s us colonial and fascist strategy is directly related to how they want to hurt china, and that also shows in the anti-chinese western narrative. and you don’t really have the moral high ground to criticize them in light of this.
neatly wrapped in a single word to deflect us responsibility for the shitty state of the world.
i repeated that point a couple of times in different ways, so i’m just gonna wish you a nice day, and may your mind eventually be freed from western propaganda.