Re:China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs
by Nginx487 on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:12AM
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I spot this demagogic argument from pro-Chinese position all the time: "they committed some crimes, so we have a right to do the same". Following that logic, they easily can justify their genocide with providing Holocaust as an example: "we just imprison and torture people, we do not burn them".
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Re:China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs
by hiq on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:38AM
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I think it's useful to directly use the word which describes this strategy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
This makes it faster for you to refute their point, especially in front of other people who might be convinced by this argument at first.