Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law

Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national ... by ffggvv on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:14AM (#24106122)

how can you defend the uighur death camps? and organ harvesting of falun gong?

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Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national ... by ken47 on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:20AM (#24106146)

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but the poster is not defending those things.

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Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national ... by Johnjonjoan on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:23AM (#24106179)

There's no excuse for killing civilians in war but there's a definite difference between doing that and putting people in concentration camps because of their religion.

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Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national ... by dqpb on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:51AM (#24106344)

Now that you got that out of the way, looking forward to your answer.

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Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national ... by ffggvv on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:28AM (#24106208)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

communist tactics haven’t changed

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Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national ... by aww_dang on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:37AM (#24106262)

It is a stock trope for these discussions at this point.

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Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national ... by dqpb on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:53AM (#24106359)

Judging by the downvotes, HN'ers seem to really dislike any mention of the Uighurs.

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