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Virtue signaling from Europe while still supporting israel's Genocide and even inviting them to Eurovision.
Shamelessness knows no bounds.
There can be multiple different people and multiple different motivations within people that do not all need to agree with each other. One person/thought can be good, while others aren't.
That discrepancy alone doesn't discredit the good things, unless they're directly related. In this case, they aren't. Israel's genocide needs to be condemned, but so need to be the events from Tiananmen square.
I hate arguments like yours. It's always like, "you either be perfect or you're the worst scum on Earth". Completely counterproductive. Yes, criticize the bad parts. But don't paint the good things, like this, as bad, it's just unnecessary.
Especially, an art installation at one place has absolutely nothing to do with who decides who goes to a stupid song contest. Wtf.
No supporting Genocide while criticizing others just makes you a giant hypocrite. Europe is not helping do something they are criticizing others
We have no moral high ground to stand on to criticize others anymore. Every single time China starts some BS about their human rights we bring up the Uyghurs and Tianennmen Square.
Now every time we bring up human rights while supporting Genocide we are nothing more than giant hypocrites.
We needs to look in the mirror instead of at China.
I assume there's a missing coma after the no. In any case, are you arguing that's better to do nothing than to do only half?
No country on earth had the moral high ground. All have sins. But some have taken steps to redeem, starting with acceptance.
Let's do both!
Let's look in the mirror first before criticizing others. Nobody else in the world is looking at this with anything but giant disgust for the hypocrisy. We cannot criticize another regime about human rights while literally supporting Genocide.
Nah, let's go both
Empty words without meaning sure don't mean anything to them.
That's the neat part about being an authoritarian regimen, you don't care what they think about you. Else you would stop the authoritarianism.
So let's do both.
I totally agree. This is a gesture of political hostility more than a sincere memorial.
Maybe China will respond with a memorial to the victims of European colonialism. And the petty back-and-forth will continue.