Does the "moral high ground" recognize borders?
Anyway, the way that the US government treats the Lakota is pretty terrible.
Probably, but are you placing it on the same level as China treats the Ughyr and other ethnic groups?
And a US client state is responsible for all the various suffering in Gaza.
Some? Yes. All? No.
And another US client state is responsible for Yemen.
Again, some, yes, all, no.
You're adopting an all or nothing approach. Israel's sins don't excuse Hamas's and that of the Arab world. Saudi Arabia's sins don't excuse that of Iran's.
"Within its own borders" is a dodge.
In theory, yes, but this conversation started on domestic issues. And I've already provided a list of what China is doing outside its borders as well.
As if society is perfectly aware of everyone in the US prison system? As if there aren't many more George Floyds who simply weren't filmed?
That's a false equivalance, and I'll give you the courtesy of assuming you know that.
The US hasn't mass incarcerated political prisoners in the same way that China has. And if we're talking about the 'other George Floyds' that weren't filmed, no doubt they exist, but compare freedom of Internet access in the US to China. If we're making the argument of "there's shit happening that we can't see," then China is the one more at fault.
As much as there is to criticize about the US prison system, people are still allowed to visit inmates. In contrast, China's political prisoners simply disappear, and are very hard to track. There's no shortage of Ughyr and even Han Chinese people who are right now, trying to find out what's happened to their friends and family.
Assange is in prison at the behest of the United States, even if he hasn't been extradited. And he is in prison because he did a journalism.
Again, you simply can't equate Assange to China's political incarceration.
The case against Assange was, in part, driven from leaking classified documents. Everyone knows where Assange is. Compare that to Chinese journalists who were imprisoned simply for criticizing the CCP.
This is nothing more than an excuse. You think China doesn't also have excuses?
I make a distinction between the incarceration of enemy combatants and prisoners of conscience, yes.
So you buy the excuses of the country whose propaganda is exported worldwide in the language that we are speaking, but not the other. OK.
It's not a question of buying excuses, it's a question of, among other things, justice, and reality.
John Doe enters a country illegally, is apprehended, and sent outside the country.
Jane Doe, a citizen of her country, criticizes her government, and is locked up for the mere act.
I have sympathy for John, but Jane is the one that's suffering more.
Notably, "body count" was absent in your list, as well as military aggression, drone bombing, and so on. Being at war rather than not apparently gives you the moral high ground. As if being at war wasn't a choice to begin with.
Body count isn't a good way of examining morality. By that logic, communism is worse than Nazism.
Second, a lot of the military action you've described falls into grey areas. There's a reason why I'll condemn wholeheartedly the invasion of Iraq, but not the invasion of Afghanistan.
Third, if you want to talk about military aggression, China isn't innocent. Yes, it hasn't invaded Iraq or Afghanistan, but it continues to occupy Tibet, has engaged in armed conflict with India, and is saber rattling against its neighbours, including the threat of 'reunifying' with Taiwan.
I think there is certainly bias and double standards when it comes to how NGOs, independent observers, and so forth treat the United States regime and its co-conspirators as opposed to what they say about governments that the State Department wants hostility with. Bias and double standards that would lead to saying that the United States is not while China is doing a genocide. If the United States falls short of literally doing a holocaust, it's not doing a genocide; if China can be represented as acting in more or less the same way that Canada or the United States has treated their indigenous populations within the last fifty years, then it is doing a genocide.
If you're going back 50 years, then why not go back even further to the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution?
I'm more concerned about what's happenening NOW, not fifty years ago, in which case, you can go as far back as you want. And again, you'd somehow have to equate stuff going on inside the US NOW, with what is happening inside China NOW. If your excuse is that "X did Y in the past," then practically no country in the world could ever criticize another.
Again, my stance is clear. I can, and have, criticize the US for a lot. But it's frankly disturbing to claim that there's moral equivalance with China's actions here.
