Is it just me or is this phrasing, with its emphasis on "their own people," only ever leveled against communist states? I never hear it used to refer to, say, the killing of black Americans via slavery or the massacre of German Jews.
Is it just me or is this phrasing, with its emphasis on "their own people," only ever leveled against communist states? I never hear it used to refer to, say, the killing of black Americans via slavery or the massacre of German Jews.
Imo it's also because Americans have internalised that it's fine for the USA to kill people from other countries as long as the treats keep flowing so they reconcile thinking murder is bad and being pro US by saying that it's only really bad if a country is killing its own people and simply assume that its just natural for countries to be consistently killing people in other countries (despite the fact that the vast majority of countries are generally not doing this).
or even that its fine for the US to kill their own citizens as they dont profess to be trying not to. on the other hand how dare any country not trying to kill their own citizens have anybody die from anything.