Comment on Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right?
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 1 year ago
But who hasn’t killed their citizens in a simple misunderstanding? Or, if that doesn’t work, America Also Bad! \s
I mean, China fucking sucks and is a shit authoritarian statist government but let’s not pretend America hasn’t done similar things.
Ever heard the stories of how we won the right to unions?
Columbine Mine Massacre
Ludlow Massacre
Thibodaux Massacre
Battle of Blair Mountain
Herrin Massacre
Hundreds of people killed in total because they were protesting.
Those things? Also bad.
Incredible that two things can simultaneously be shit, but it’s true.
Congrats. That is exactly what I wrote.
Half this site can’t accomplish holding two thoughts at once
Can always rely on there being at least one person “America bad.” Doesn’t change what happened in 1989.
No it doesn’t. But the same people who whine amd cry about people using whataboutism in favor of China do the EXACT same thing in favor od the US.
They are both shit. Everyone is tired of each side pretending that only one side is shit.
Except they’re nowhere nearly comparable. The US is pretty bad but China is an authoritarian state with internet censorship and state-controlled companies.
The “America also bad” feels like a mass murderer saying “well you stabbed a guy 10 years ago, you’re no different”.
Go look up to see what China did during the great leap forward and cultural revolution. They killed about 30 million of their own people. I would like you to post a source proving that the United States murdered 30 million of its own people within the past 150 years, as well as persecuting tens of millions of people and sending millions of children from cities to be reeducated with forced labor on camps after being separated from their parents. Hundreds of thousands of intellectuals were murdered for being… Intellectuals.
The only thing that comes close was slavery and the Japanese internment during world War II. However, slavery was abolished over 150 years ago, and during the Japanese internment families were generally kept together and they were not forcibly reeducated.
but let’s not pretend America hasn’t done similar things.
Only total fools would do so and I see no comments here that would suggest such nonsense …
The one they replied to may have been criticizing “whataboutism”, but it could also be (mis)interpreted as implying the USA has not had similar problems.
But who hasn’t killed their citizens in a simple misunderstanding? Or, if that doesn’t work, America Also Bad! \s
RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 1 year ago
Seems like they usually leave out the "also" because apparently two things can't be bad at the same time. Wouldn't it be great to live in a world where only one thing is bad? I expect it'd be simpler, at least.