• Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      I remember the September 11 and more than 3000 killed people....in 1973, when the CIA organized the end of an democratic elected president to put an bloody dictator in Chile, Pinochet.

      https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1193755188/chile-coup-50-years-pinochet-kissinger-human-rights-allende

      • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        Libs and your obsession with whataboutism. This one isn't even "whatabout," the point is that the guy in this picture was fine, and in fact the army did everything in their power not to harm him.

        In a complete opposite fashion, US drone operators gleefully shot random people and caused unbelievable harm to an entire region.

        I proudly defend whataboutism when it's used to exemplify the necessity of some tactic elsewhere or to compare similar cases for better understanding. But this isn't even that

      • plinky [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        which country you from homie? I can find you a massacre you have long forgotten and nobody was punished.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        It's laughable to cry "whataboutism" when discussing international politics. Comparing how countries act in similar situations is one of the foundations of international law.

        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          Gwangju was less of an uprising and more of a directed anti-communist slaughter. Calling it a massacre is more appropriate.

          To this day, Gwangju is looked down upon by the rest of South Korea due to this massacre.