There’s a crucial difference: the PRC just jailed 32 people for very-knowingly risking life sentences to voice their discontent around June 4 and (more broadly) the National Security Law that has openly erased Hong Kongers’ right to free speech and free assembly.
If you’re a Chinese citizen standing in the street next to Zhongnanhai to criticize the unelected ruler Xi Jinping, you are 100% going to be hauled off in an unmarked van and locked away indefinitely. By all means, mount some very justified critiques of the USA’s treatment of BLM protestors, or its horrible track record around race relations, or policing, warmongering and overthrowing Latin American democracies- just be aware that ‘the USA being bad’ is not enough, when the goal is to justify authoritarianism (bordering on fascism) in China.
No, there’s no crucial difference, there’s just you excusing your lords over commiting worse crimes and not recognising that what China is doing is nothing compared to what the US does to its own citizens in one year. The difference is that the US is not bordering on fascism, the US picked up the baton and continued what Nazi Germany left off, they are literally a fascist regime.
There’s a crucial difference: the PRC just jailed 32 people for very-knowingly risking life sentences to voice their discontent around June 4 and (more broadly) the National Security Law that has openly erased Hong Kongers’ right to free speech and free assembly.
If you’re a Chinese citizen standing in the street next to Zhongnanhai to criticize the unelected ruler Xi Jinping, you are 100% going to be hauled off in an unmarked van and locked away indefinitely. By all means, mount some very justified critiques of the USA’s treatment of BLM protestors, or its horrible track record around race relations, or policing, warmongering and overthrowing Latin American democracies- just be aware that ‘the USA being bad’ is not enough, when the goal is to justify authoritarianism (bordering on fascism) in China.
No, there’s no crucial difference, there’s just you excusing your lords over commiting worse crimes and not recognising that what China is doing is nothing compared to what the US does to its own citizens in one year. The difference is that the US is not bordering on fascism, the US picked up the baton and continued what Nazi Germany left off, they are literally a fascist regime.