When people want to pretend that communism is worse than capitalism because of gulags, that’s not whataboutism.
Because when capitalism is imprisoning as many people as communism, and also leaving millions to live on the streets, starve, etc. then it’s very relevant since you’re comparing them.
When you criticize only one system for things done by both, pointing that out isn’t deflection - it’s simply showing the hypocrisy. When that’s your only argument in the comparison, that’s very relevant.
When people want to pretend that communism is worse than capitalism
Basically nobody on lemmy does that, and that’s a strawman. Criticizing tankies and Stalin is not an attack on communism itself or a defense of capitalism.
The entire purpose of this meme is to point out the hypocrisy of condemning America’s wrongdoings (which we acknowledge) while defending the atrocities of a dictator just because they waved a red flag while doing said atrocities.
When people want to pretend that communism is worse than capitalism because of gulags, that’s not whataboutism.
Because when capitalism is imprisoning as many people as communism, and also leaving millions to live on the streets, starve, etc. then it’s very relevant since you’re comparing them.
When you criticize only one system for things done by both, pointing that out isn’t deflection - it’s simply showing the hypocrisy. When that’s your only argument in the comparison, that’s very relevant.
Basically nobody on lemmy does that, and that’s a strawman. Criticizing tankies and Stalin is not an attack on communism itself or a defense of capitalism.
The entire purpose of this meme is to point out the hypocrisy of condemning America’s wrongdoings (which we acknowledge) while defending the atrocities of a dictator just because they waved a red flag while doing said atrocities.