This is hypocritical. US and the whole Western world is not any better on this.
The US constitution frequently prevents the US government (and US State governments) from enacting laws or enforcing previously enacted laws. This can be good or bad depending on your point of view, but it's a simple fact that in the US we have constitutional rights that are actually pretty potent. Do the police in China have to read people their rights? Guantanomo is a travesty, but it's a travesty precisely because the US Constitution is difficult for the government to ignore.
A more interesting example is many former British colonies, such as Australia, and Britain itself manage to have quite free societies despite having almost no constitutional protections. In China I'd say you don't even seem to have the basic rights people in the English system and its descendants enjoy thanks to the Magna Carta (Habeas Corpus, for example, or the right to a fair trial. Wasn't there just a very high profile case in China where the accused was very vocal one day and then suddenly had nothing to say the next?)
I don't get this. Did you mean there are 50% hypocrites and 90% hypocrites? And the 50% hypocrites can always laugh it out at the 90% hypocrites, because he/she may think he/she has a moral high ground due to less hypocrisy. Heck, that's mouthful.
(Seriously though, degree and frequency are different things)
China put down a peaceful protest using tanks. Hundreds of protesters and dissidents were killed. Some by being shot on the spot, some by being run over by tanks, many more by being executed for the crime of protesting the government. People in China have a legitimate fear that criticism of their leaders could lead to arrest, imprisonment, or even execution. That's a rational fear borne out by decades of evidence showing the consequences of being a political activist in China.
And now compare that with Chinese record, or does it not fall under "human rights" category?
American exceptionalism is the most disgusting theory if there ever was one.
So much so that most americans will somehow find a justification for all the international crimes against humanity that the american government has done over so many years, sleeping well at night thinking their government actually cares about them and their flimsy perception of freedom.
It gets old, people coming to the US because they see opportunity, and then being entitled sanctimonious fools. Never lifting a hand to make it better, but quick to pipe up when it's time to critique, making broad statements about how everyone here is so misinformed.
You think the average person in China is any different than the average American? Over 110M+ Chinese people can't even read. I really doubt they are over contemplating all of the human-rights abuses in the world by nation-states, including their own. And I bet they sleep just fine too.
- I condemn the American Government.
- I condemn most of the American people for their general apathy towards the human rights violations of their government both outside and inside their country.
- But I also realize that the American Government have most americans either too busy, too distracted or have them misinformed through propaganda campaign to have any serious widespread opposition to their action. The Government have all powerful multiple secret service organization that works full time to make sure there is no serious threat to the government status quo (among other things), under the pretence of national security.
- I can go on say that the actions of the government should not make the people of the country complacent of their crimes. After many generations of the same old foreign policy, this line of talk starts of get a little old, at some point someone need to stand up say you should also be just as liable as your government because even after knowing their crimes, you didn't do anything about it.
So yes, I do have a problem with the American Government, and I do think most americans are fault for not checking their government - BUT I don't have any problem with american people in general.