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Pointing out someone else's hypocrisy isn't an inconsistency. If someone says doing business with a military is unacceptable and then proceeds to do business with a military, they're a hypocrite. That's still true even if the person telling you this does business with a military.

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> "If someone says doing business with a military is unacceptable"

Thiel hasn't even done that. His position seems to be that American companies should work with the US Military, but shouldn't work with the Chinese military. Such a position is certainly partisan, but it isn't hypocritical.

> Such a position is certainly partisan

Try patriotic, or more cynically nationalistic.

Partisan fits. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/partisan

1. An adherent to a party or faction. 2. A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.

Maybe that word isn't judgemental enough for you, but it fits and I used it carefully.

Both of these are instances of partisanship.

Is it hypocritical to work with the US military, and not the Chinese military?

Is your justification for not working with the Chinese military that working with a military is unacceptable?

Clearly it isn't Peter Thiel's justification. So kelnos is wrong in calling this hypocrisy.

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