[ionised]

> Is this really the best response? A deflection? Do you know how tiring it gets? How little it advances discussion?

What you posted is also a deflection. You are turning false equivalency into a logical fallacy here.

How about you address the similarities instead of dismissing uncomfortable truths about your own country while simultaneously attacking others.

It is the worst type of jingoism.

[RandVal30142]

>How about you address the similarities

Because it diverts the topic. It is literally introducing the fallacy seen in "And you are lynching Negroes[1]" to avoid the subject. Because of people like you we cannot discuss being victimized today because of deeds in the past made by unrelated entities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

[ionised]

> Because of people like you we cannot discuss being victimized today because of deeds in the past made by unrelated entities.

And because of people like you we will continue to make the same mistakes over and over again because analysis of past injustices has become taboo, and identification of irony and hypocrisy in the actions of nations has become too uncomfortable for you to handle, because you still buy into the good guys versus bad guys cartoon rhetoric so prevalent in US propaganda that even grown fucking adults buy into.

See, I can make dumb comments too.