• _wintermute@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    while not much commenting on the likes of China and Russia

    He, and by extension anyone making arguments criticizing America, doesn’t need to comment because the rest of western society is constantly commenting on China or Russia. They’re almost never out of our news cycles, at least in the past few decades.

    Even barring the fact that most of what we hear about from the east is heavily filtered through propaganda efforts, saying “now also criticize these groups!” is just whataboutism intended to change the topic, and is more akin to saying All Lives Matter.