US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators

Re:US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators by rgbrenner on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:19PM (#19403871)

You say that like China accepts the ICC. They don't. They never signed the treaty either.

I get really tired of this: I can't condemn more than one bad thing in the world at a time. No criticism of others unless your country has proven itself to be a saint first. That's terrible: you advocate letting some off for terrible acts. We (you included) should be condemning terrible things everywhere you see them.

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Re:US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators by cletus on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:35PM (#19404036)

This is a standard defense tactic, sometimes called "What-about-isms" and is a Trump favourite, as it happens.

There are some topics for some people where they'll dig in and won't see reason whatsoever. China (for Chinese nationals) is a common one when you can bring up any number of subjects, the "re-educations camps" being just one.

But, but, but... what about US internment of Japanese descendants in WW2? Or the genocide of Native Americans? Or slavery?

That's how it goes. Sadly.

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