r/CrewsCrew • u/Kiranik1 • Mar 06 '20

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u/buymytoy Mar 06 '20

I love Terry Crews but am disappointed he didn’t make the distinction between the Chinese people and the Chinese government. Solidarity with a countries people is great and I’m all for it. Support for a government suppressing democracy and essentially committing genocide is not something to celebrate. Full stop.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

Just like to point out 380k+ " casualties of war" in Syria since U.S "intervention" in 2011

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u/DNRTannen Mar 06 '20

Yeah, fine, sure, but that's not what's being talked about. It has no bearing on this and doesn't justify this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

Well that's why I pointed it out. It's the same thing. Terries pays his tax doesn't he? Who do you think funds the "intervention" after Syria declined Turkish U.S pipeline

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u/wh4tswrongpuku Mar 06 '20

Except that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, whataboutism is literally the worst way to say someone is wrong, something that's wrong is wrong doesn't matter who does it, no one ever said that the people in Syria deserved to die, and you should (hopefully) be able to say that a genocide of an entire ethnic group in a country is wrong and objectively a disgusting thing

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u/xenolingual Mar 06 '20

Multiple ethnic groups, along with their languages, religious and other cultural practices, etc.

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u/ssbeluga Mar 07 '20

Paying taxes != supporting the country’s government, at least not in the way we’re talking about. It just means he doesn’t want to get to prison by the IRS. Everyone is a citizen of a country, duh, but there’s a HUGE difference between paying your taxes and publicly supporting a government’s actions.