[StuffedParrot]

How convenient that the part of humanity they finger out as running the “crime of the century” is economically opposed to Quillete’s love of the american free market. In reality both these governments are just as bad. Chinese and muslim? Have your culture destroyed. Bad luck with the law in the US? Have your life destroyed, either by bullets or neglect in camps or prison.

Compare this to all the people who have been incarcerated for drug posession, if they were not originally framed. Why would china pay any attention to our LACK of morals? We have no ground to stand on.

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic or ideological flamewar. That's going the wrong way down a one way street—it is not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[StuffedParrot]

How does my comment qualify but not the submitted article?

[dang]

They both qualify, but note that word 'further'. Going further in the flamewar direction is driving the wrong way down a one-way street.

[duxup]

>In reality both these governments are just as bad.

I don't understand how people do the math on this or why such arguments come up when it involves news they don't like.... rather than actually talk about the story itself.

[socceroos]

I would guess that people are perceiving the news to be a part of a wider mud-slinging match between two super powers and would rather argue about who gets to cast the first stone.

[StuffedParrot]

You don’t argue with propaganda. Completely missing from this article are all the reasons we can’t say shit about china: our own human rights record is terrible and everyone knows it.

[expert700]

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[dang]

Please keep tired tropes like "whataboutism", and other canned arguments, out of HN threads. They're repetitive, add no information, and lead to predictable discussion.

Plenty of previous explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[cholantesh]

OK, but the Falun Gong aren't a gaggle of saints, despite the Quillette brain(worm) trust's willingness to uncritically swallow their bullshit.