I'm vehemently objecting the framing that it's "becoming genuinely difficult" to answer the question “is the United States better, worse, or the same as China?”. It's very easy to answer without hesitation while making the valid points you make about the US and what we're facing.
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Replying to @zeynep @sarahjeong
Also, side point, in Germany, which you praise, and where I have family (as many Turks do!), I know people who faced citizenship denial because their very very German spouse could not prove German BLOOD from before world war II, where many children born there have no citizenship.
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Replying to @zeynep @sarahjeong
It's true as you write that for one particular historic crime, Nazis, the official German response has been acceptance (well, after being soundly defeated twice and having been forced to but I'll take it), but the racism there, *legal* & informal, can be so deep it's suffocating.
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Replying to @zeynep @sarahjeong
Also correction: in Germany, which you praise, and where I have family (as many Turks do!), I know people who faced citizenship denial because their very very German spouse could not prove German BLOOD from before world war ONE, where many children born there have no citizenship.
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Replying to @zeynep @sarahjeong
So people literally had to prove, with no gaps in paperwork, that their German spouse was blood German (yes, what it sounds like, blood, as in German blood) from before 1914 before being allowed to apply to confer citizenship to their legal spouse with whom they had children.
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Replying to @zeynep @sarahjeong
In any case I think we can and should point to any US admin's hypocrisy and US moral crimes without saying it's getting "genuinely difficult" to decide better or worse between one stupid tweet by a President baselessly suggesting postponing elections to *actual* totalitarianism.
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Replying to @zneeley25 @sarahjeong
That's bad. Anything that restricts voter access to voting is bad. The idea that this is at all difficult to tell apart with *actual totalitarianism* where, forget voting, people are not able to whisper mild criticisms of the lifelong leader without risking total ruin is absurd.
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I don't think anyone is defending, or getting within a mile of defending, those actions, or US hypocrisy here. I'm an immigrant myself; no stranger to what's happening here nor to authoritarianism elsewhere. It's absolutely possible to talk about US without glossing over reality.
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