Comment by low_poly_shiba | Hacker News Reader

Comment by low_poly_shiba | Hacker News Reader

It's wild to me that americans point at China for this when they:

1) routinely bomb muslims to death, destroying entire nations, I guess gesturing towards vague notions that being murdered is better than being brainwashed

2) have their own immigrant concentration camps, going as far as to reuse the same infrastructure for japanese internment camps (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/migrant-...)

the main difference is that the victims of abuse in China are Chinese citizens, whereas americans draw their borders in such a way that their victims live in their "backyard" and not america proper.

American exceptionalism is alive and well!

edit: lol I'm a lily-white Canadian, for all of those claiming China is somehow "my side".

also, the completely reflexive, kneejerk way in which posters deploy accusations of "whataboutism" to avoid any critical assessment of what they're witnessing, is truly spectacular.

Whatabout those dudes over there, they also do bad shit too, ignore my bad shit amiright?!

This piece isn't about Americans or their reactions to this horrible situation.

so? I find it interesting to point out the double standard

I'm hardly the first Canadian to notice the insane ramp-up in anti-China sentiment from our American neighbours, especially given the stark contrast with the royal treatment given to the genocidal regime in Saudi Arabia.

Dismembered journalists, decapitated feminists and democratic activist teenagers, famine in Yemen, Senate voted to stop the war and Trump vetoed it... and yet HN is all China every day.

China isn't the only country that looks a lot like 1984 from the outside peering in.

Where do you see a double standard applied?

The way the US deals with Saudi Arabia vs. the way it deals with China.

And the disciplined way in which people here rationalize that status quo.

Re (2), there's a tiny detail: these are illegal immigrants, who often take great pains to get to the US territory, fully aware of their future illegal status. I wonder why these people make a choice like that?

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Lazy whataboutism. The failures of American policy don't negate the crimes of the PRC.

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