Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

• 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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    • 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.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can repeat the same nonsense all you want, it’s still nonsense. I hope one day your “mind is freed” from comparing everything to the worst possible example as an excuse for bad behavior.

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