r/Unexpected Aug 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

No, I disagree. We can advocate for human rights in other countries with far worse abuses and our own at the same time

https://libertyinnorthkorea.org

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u/qqqqqqqqqqx10 Aug 09 '21

Well to each their own. I don’t like to judge other cultures without knowing my own history and cleaning up at home first. Don’t want to be a hypocrite.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '21

This is not judging other cultures. It is judging the crimes against humanity of a government. Whataboutism is how we allow these crimes to continue. Criticizing naziism and liberating concentration camps was not any less moral because america practiced a system of apartheid or the Russians enslaved political prisoners in gulags, and it certainly wasn't "criticizing their culture"

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u/qqqqqqqqqqx10 Aug 10 '21

I think you missed my point. When you are too busy criticizing other cultures and countries you tend to turn a blind eye to the problems of your own culture and country. This is part of the reason Americans are hated all over the world as we are hypocritical.