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Americans’ views of China more positive again in 2026
(www.pewresearch.org)
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It's very tiresome to see Americans turn a blind eye to concentration camps in their own backwards while claiming some moral imperative to liberate Xinjiang.
Or Venezuela. Or North Korea. Or Cuba.
TwO ThiNGS CaN Be BAd aT thE SamE TimE. Also iRan killeD 3000000000000 people.
It's most often a fallacy used for covert victim-blaming. Like "ok he beat up his wife but she's annoying".
Or "ok israel is bad but what about hamas"
Crazy how the US can sponsor the bombing of UNRWA relief workers, then spin about and complain that Hamas isn't letting aid in.
I see your point. But in this case the US and China in conflict and it wouldn't really make sense to characterize either of them as a victim in relation to the other
I am not doing that dipshit. You are doing the exact thing I was just talking about. Yes America is a shit show right now that doesn't magically make the Chinese government not suck.
America has concentration camps and is arresting innocent adults and children and filling those camps. It's terrible and it does nothing to make China's government suck less.
This is Whataboutism!
Whataboutism! Whataboutism! Whataboutism!
Help me. I am a 8 year old boy living in the illegitimate Yankee Capitalist regime. President Xi, our shelves are empty and we are hungry. I am asking you to liberate my state of Connecticut with your Chengdu J-20 Stealth air superiority fighters and your Dongfeng 41 Missiles.
Whataboutism is saying how evil America is and acting like that makes China less bad. Every asshole in these comments acting like China is "less evil" than the United States is barfing out whataboutisms.
Trump is a pedophile. This doesn't make China suck less it just makes America suck more.
Aaaaah! My mistake. I didn't realize Whataboutism was America specific. All this time I thought it was a generic rhetorical technique where you try to deflect the blame for your own country's missteps by insisting any other country was worse.
But apparently America is exempt. Perhaps even... exceptional? Is there some kind of American Exceptionalism at play here? One in which America is beyond criticism?
Okay, but what if the Chinese economy promotes things Americans desire - green alternative energy, public health care and education accessible to residents without respect to income or ethnic background, a near totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry following the collapse of the landlord-backed government?
Would that make China suck less?
They're accusing you of whataboutism ... by using whataboutism. They're not arguing in good faith.
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