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The fact that you can talk about that, while criticism of China gets shuffled off the front page EVEN on an American site, speaks volumes. https://www.reddit.c
by PavlovsCat 7y ago
The fact that you can talk about that, while criticism of China gets shuffled off the front page EVEN on an American site, speaks volumes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dx8rn0/absolutely_no_mercy_leaked_files_expose_how_china/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dx8rn0/absolutely...
What would you say is the American equivalent to that? And what would be the American equivalent to this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/d1rp31/are_we_really_expected_to_not_fight_back_against/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/d1rp31/are_we_rea...
And that is, all other actions considered, such a harmless and cute clip. Keeping it SFW.
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage/videos/950353428667865/ https://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage/videos/9503534286...
How do you explain this?
> You are not as immune as you think
You don't know what I think. Personally, I'm not even American, and have criticized the US for the stuff you mention more harshly than the average American by orders of magnitude. That doesn't mean I don't see the infinite difference between the US government sometimes sucking, and the CCP (== no elections, no free press, torture camps, putting down protests over the law being broken with force, dictating to companies what they may post in Western countries, and so on). Yeah, Snowden had to run, but we can talk about Snowden. There's American books by American publishers about American war crimes, Noam Chomsky leads a full, critical life. There's a greater risk that the Chinese government might kidnap or assassinate him, just for saying something they don't like in passing, than the US govt laying hand on him. So to even mention the CCP and the US in one sentence... again, I'm not even American, and even I know all that and more.
The only data point you're offering for what you think about the subject at hand is this "mirror check". Those are a dime a dozen, people pretending to be objective or neutral, and calling it a mirror check -- when the whole point of the exercise them getting away from their own personal stance and responsibility, while creating straw men up about a generic other.