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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by adventured on Saturday June 18, 2016 @12:50PM (#11929361)
What do those examples have to do with the parent not understanding the Chinese Government's cowardice and fear?

I don't regard it as insulated thinking at all. It makes perfect sense to be bewildered by such a disgusting display of cowardice and irrational fear by China.

Someone on a public forum says: X nation is doing a bad thing; one of the responses inevitably is: yeah but the US did a bad thing. There should be a 'law' named for that attempted topic distraction in public forums.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by munin on Saturday June 18, 2016 @01:01PM (#11929424)
> There should be a 'law' named for that attempted topic distraction in public forums.

there kind of is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by DblPlusUngood on Saturday June 18, 2016 @01:11PM (#11929494)
Here are even more names for this fallacy: tu quoque and whataboutism.
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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by lostlogin on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:04PM (#11930086)
Thanks. "Ad hominem once removed" was as close as I could get.
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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by jerichois on Saturday June 18, 2016 @11:39PM (#11931689)
While this might apply in some cases, I feel for most it's about putting things in perspective.
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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by jerichois on Saturday June 18, 2016 @11:38PM (#11931685)
To me, OP put things in perspective.

For example, do we attribute the US governments use of eminent domain to gentrify urban areas as "American Government's cowardice and fear?"

By putting things in perspective, we realize the "Other Nation" maybe isn't doing it for nefarious means, but rather just operating like any other Nation.

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