Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week agoIt’s best to correctly contextualize all bad. Simply saying X is bad if one country does .5X and another does 2X equalizes each into merely “X.”
guy@piefed.social 1 week ago
Exactly! :)
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
My point is that that is bad, it obscures reality and leads to incorrect conclusions.
guy@piefed.social 1 week ago
Incorrect conclusions about bad actions being bad no matter who does it?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Bad actions have different intensities and scales. Such equal condemnation for unequal evil leads to people who refuse to take a Pro-Palestinian stance, which implicitly sides with Israel as the stronger force.