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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 6 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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zygimantasdev ◴[08 Oct 19 10:00 UTC] No.21190462[source]▶
South Park is spot on this season. You could say they are good with predictions, but I think they just gave different perspective to something that already has been happening (episodes on China censorship)
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bdibs ◴[08 Oct 19 10:10 UTC] No.21190516[source]▶
While I agree they’re spot on, it’s not like this is a new issue.
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kkarakk ◴[08 Oct 19 10:21 UTC] No.21190595[source]▶
China has been leveraging their power "quietly" for some time now. Anything anti-China gets buried or discredited or shouted down using whataboutisms. Even here on hackernews you'll see tons of posts on negative chinese news from month old accounts fuzzing the narrative saying some variation of "it's not easy to understand if you're not chinese etc etc"

The hong kong issue is just bringing the issue into the mainstream

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1. TeMPOraL ◴[08 Oct 19 10:48 UTC] No.21190794[source]▶
> Anything anti-China gets buried or discredited or shouted down using whataboutisms.

Interesting. The only time I see whataboutism and China/Russia brought up in the same HN thread is when somebody tries to defend China/Russia by pointing out similar problems in the West, and that person gets shouted down and accused of engaging in "whataboutism".

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2. Eldt ◴[08 Oct 19 10:54 UTC] No.21190828[source]▶
Sounds like you're describing the same thing. I've seen many comments defend China and try to turn attention towards actions done by the US.
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3. TeMPOraL ◴[08 Oct 19 10:58 UTC] No.21190860[source]▶
I initially read kkarakk's comment as a reverse of what I wrote, but even if we're talking the same, I personally believe that any and all accusations of whataboutism are just thought-terminating cliches and are invalid from the start.
4. esailija ◴[08 Oct 19 11:16 UTC] No.21190968[source]▶
It's not to defend China/Russia but to prove that the accuser is not interested in the problem itself but only in weaponizing the problem against those countries. Defense is not necessary or actually even possible since the claims are always made without any evidence.
5. yters ◴[08 Oct 19 12:17 UTC] No.21191376[source]▶
What US actions are equivalent to China? If you were in China could you make the same argument regarding Chinese actions?
6. ViViDboarder ◴[08 Oct 19 13:50 UTC] No.21192260[source]▶
Exactly. Someone responding to something shitty one person does by pointing out something someone else did is attempting to “shout down” the original comment with whataboutisms.