Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again
by smartasspolice on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:38PM
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The UK kept trade with the US when slavery there was rampant. Any country will have hiccups throughout its development.
It's convenient but counterproductive to categorize every argument against yours as "whatabouttism".
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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again
by weberc2 on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:57PM
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> The UK kept trade with the US when slavery there was rampant.
And we’re I a citizen of the UK in this tortured analogy (with my contemporary morals and all that), I wouldn’t want my money supporting that.
> Any country will have hiccups throughout its development.
Right, but we don’t have to support those “hiccups”. Anyway, China had 60 million hiccups in the last century. They’re all out of hiccup passes.
> It's convenient but counterproductive to categorize every argument against yours as "whatabouttism".
Not every argument, only the ones that start with suggest I can’t criticize China until <other countries that I presumably support> are completely without blame. Such as yours.