“the West is everything they told you China was”

by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack

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“So the next time you hear a Western politician condemn China for silencing dissent, ask them about Hüseyin Doğru. Ask them about the BBC cutting ‘free Palestine’ from a BAFTA speech. Ask them about the pregnant woman body-slammed in Amsterdam and the demonstrators being brutalised in Berlin. Ask them about von der Leyen’s heckler being arrested after she joked that in Russia, he would be arrested. The West is everything they told you China was. The only difference is that the Empire has better public relations”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-west-is-everything-they-told

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    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Even if wasn’t, it’s fucking whataboutism, a poster fucking boy. I didn’t even care to search the details of this. Is there anyone who like fall for shit like this?

      Yes, there are problems on the west. Doesn’t mean it’s OK. It means people here have to do something about things, likewise people elsewhere ought to work through shit at their homes too.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    ask them about Hüseyin Doğru.

    The famous Russian propagandist? What about him? He’s suffering the consequences for being a Russian propaganda asset.

    Ask them about the pregnant woman body-slammed in Amsterdam

    The one that wasn’t actually in Amsterdam? The one that had nothing to do with a hospital at all, and was in fact about a response to a threat of violence and destruction? That one?

    Ask them about von der Leyen’s heckler being arrested after she joked that in Russia, he would be arrested.

    The guy who kept trying to shout over an invited speaker was removed from the area, and he then suffered the horrible horrible punishment of being fined 110 euros. Yes, truly on par with china simply dissapearing dissidents forever.