It’s funny that every time someone points out the pot calling the kettle black the training kicks in to shout “whataboutism” and it must be “wumao”. It’s almost a meme. You don’t think an article about Xi Ping’s government warning about USAian surveillance would be mocked and ridiculed due to their Great Firewall? That wouldn’t be “whataboutism” though, right? It would be a “critical opinion”?
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tardigrada@beehaw.org 5 days agoOne thing that’s obvious here on Lemmy is that whataboutism works only in one direction. If an article is critical of China, Russia, Iran, or other dictatorships, you’d read, “But about U.S./EU/the West”. But there are tons of articles here critical of Western countries, and it’s accepted. Why is this? Just wumaos?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 days ago
tardigrada@beehaw.org 5 days ago
And the next whataboutism! What a waste of time.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 days ago
Not sure if you’re trolling now 😂 Good meme.
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 days ago
an article about Xi Ping’s government warning about USAian surveillance
Not possible. The CCP doest “warn”, it orders to block the app/site/word/photo, and it never existed. Anyone daring to say that it did, or to warn of stuff the CCP didn’t say, gets imprisoned or worse (see: the doctor who dared to warn abot COVID, instead of following CCP’s truth).
sunzu@kbin.run 5 days ago
Because people live there and that's what they care about.
Also this article is shiti propaganda. Is temu shite.... Ya, you ain't got to use.
Google luck trying to have a normal life qiehout use big tech lol
Which is a lot more dangerous than temu or tiktok from personal privacy and security perspective.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
Lemmy was designed to be a place where communists would have a community. Some instances weren’t, but a lot of the original ones were.
tardigrada@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Yeah, these are the ‘tankies’ who got banned on Reddit, right? I guess it takes time until they get a minority, but it’s good that the community grows steadily.