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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by erlehmann_ on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:14PM (#12177205)
Referring to racial discrimination in the west as reaction to allegations of human rights abuse is a quite old technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Edit: The rhetorical device is called a “whataboutism”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism. The fallacy involved is called “to quoque” – a special case of an “ad hominem” argument, i.e. attacking the speaker and not the content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

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Re:How the United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire M... by upofadown on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @08:43PM (#12177622)
There was no attempt to excuse human rights abuses in the post you are responding to. Only a comment about visiting such places vs the US while brown.

In general despotic regimes love visitors who are willing to keep their opinions about the local political situation to themselves no matter what sort of person they are. Places like the US tend to be indifferent to the political beliefs of visitors and as a result any local racial biases will be applied fairly to those visiting.

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