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Re:I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps by coldtea on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:03PM (#24880448)
I find "whataboutism is not an argument" is a knee-jerk conditioned reaction against putting things in perspective.

It's almost a Pavlovian thought-stopping response by now - "sure, we have faults but we know them already, can we now concentrate on treating the enemy as some unique evil again?".

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Re:I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps by dragonwriter on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:05PM (#24880455)
No, it's “uniqueness isn't the argument, stop beating that strawman”.
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Re:I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps by free_rms on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:31PM (#24880646)
China is uniquely fixated on here on HN, there's a thread every few days painting them as a unique threat.
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Re:I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps by Supermancho on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:42PM (#24880725)
I would say that's all accurate and correctly characterized. Ofc, it's easy to paint something that's already a finished work.
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Re:I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps by CyberDildonics on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:13PM (#24880513)
What about all the other logical fallacies? I think we should address many other logical fallacies before having a conversation about whataboutism.
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