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And you are lynching Negroes Not that I'm suggesting they're wrong or I'm defending Trump
Would be more fallacious if they weren't actually lynching black people tbh
Whataboutism
Of course, "one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone", I'm not a fan of US but also not a fan of PRC
Equal condemnation for unequal things just ends up being support for the status quo, though.
Whataboutism
Yeah, and?
I like that liberals have decided that criticizing the USA is inherently fallacious.
I didn't even remotely suggested anything like this
Ok, I wouldn't expect you to be honest about it anyway.
Two things can be true.
That's what I wrote, but I forgot it's lemmy.ml
That's not what you wrote, though?
Yeah not literally, I didn't mean to praise the US in any way, I'm just recalling a historical example of one not-so-ideal country criticizing another not-so-ideal country Also
Part might be key to understand what I meant