I'd love a bot that creates a Venn diagram of those focused on Moscow protests versus those who gave a damn abt NoDPL protests.
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Replying to @emptywheel
Or even a Venn diagram of those focused on Moscow protest and those who care abt BLM. But I guess that's just whataboutism, huh?
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Replying to @emptywheel
I don't understand. Is there a moral or ethical point being made?
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Replying to @muddletoes
There are people who only care about protests when they protest our adversaries, even if protests for similar abuses happen here.
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Replying to @emptywheel @muddletoes
This is oh so true! A glass house is an abode we all live in. And throwing stones is what we're really good at.
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It's a good way to distract from black men & women being killed for no reason, as if that is not political in the way killings in Russia are
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Replying to @emptywheel @muddletoes
Part of explanation (not justification though) is tendency & reluctance not to navel gaze at our own navel, but at the navels of others.
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I really want someone to reconsider history of "whataboutism" for studied disdain it embraced for black lives. Jim Crow REALLY WAS that bad.
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We sort of acknowledge that Jim Crow was that bad now. But don't acknowledge that yelling at Communists provided Jim Crow cover.
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Then, as now, black men being killed extrajudicially wasn't considered "political" in the way Soviet repression was. Just dead bodies.
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