Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:26PM
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If you see anything that the US is doing that is equivalent what China is doing in Xinjiang, I'm pretty sure that the problem is with your moral compass. The two situations are not equivalent.
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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
by pm90 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @04:10PM
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> If you see anything that the US is doing that is equivalent what China is doing in Xinjiang, I'm pretty sure that the problem is with your moral compass. The two situations are not equivalent.
Pretty generous considering the US actually separated thousands of kids from their parents at the border, some of whose parents have still not been found. If you didn't factor that into your moral compass, you probably should.
Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:19PM
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I see your thousands, and raise you hundreds of thousands.
Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
by pm90 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:51PM
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What is this? Comparing who has the bigger stick?
Who harms more people?
Any system has injustices; we cannot prevent that. But willfully enacting forcible family separation was not an accident.
Hundreds of orphans is bad enough.
Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:33PM
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Absolutely, hundreds of orphans is bad enough. (Except they aren't exactly orphans - we didn't kill the parents. They're long-term separated from their parents, though, which is pretty close.)
Hundreds of thousands is a thousand times worse. So, yeah. Not equivalent.