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Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"Whataboutism" is a term used to feel righteous while completely ignoring your bias.

Admitting both contries are bad and then taking a clear stance between them is hypocritical at best.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"Whataboutism" is when you dismiss any bad of any one thing because there are other examples of bad things. In fact, you trying to deflect your bias as my bias is actually also whataboutism.

If you don't have any logical excuse for the bad thing, then you should stop standing up for the bad thing.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure, but here it's pretty much about the trade war between the two.

Neither side is just, and so seeing it as "China bad" is not a neutral outlook.

In the US-centric environment, standing up for neutrality is easy to confuse with standing up for China.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldnt want to take a neutral stance here, if the USA is a 53 then China is a 87 on the badometer.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Here, opinions may vary, but that's outside the scope.

If you want my personal opinions, I would reverse the numbers. China is spreading authoritarian power and commits human rights violations primarily within its own confines and in some nearby regions like South China Sea, USA does it globally. Both are not great, though, and commonly I try to treat them with the same measuring stick.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

The last time the USA claimed territory was at the end of WWII.