Imagine falling so far down the rabbit hole of left-wing talking points that the line between voter ID and literal genocide begins to blur.
Well, you don’t have to imagine anymore! Just turn on your television.
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The 2022 Beijing Olympics pose a tricky moral conundrum for U.S. audiences and lawmakers. On the one hand, curling is fun, but on the other, the hosting nation is a country-sized concentration camp.
What to do?
How are American viewers and politicians supposed to reconcile their desire to watch and participate in the Olympics with the fact that doing so directly benefits the country that is exterminating Uyghur Muslims and their culture in the Xinjiang region, rounding them up in literal concentration camps?
According to certain deranged wonderbrains in Western media, the answer may lie in a related question: What difference, if any, is there between China and the United States? After all, how can the U.S. criticize China when states such as Texas recently passed voter integrity laws? How can America sit in judgment of China’s human rights atrocities when the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol wasn’t all that long ago?
“I can’t help but wonder about our inability to get the world to follow us on a diplomatic boycott of China on something that’s fundamental about, sort of, what we believe should be freedom bigger than financial ties,” mused NBC News’s Chuck Todd.
He added, referring obliquely to the Jan. 6 riot, “It makes me think, ‘Well, maybe the example of our democracy is not so good so people are thinking, ‘Why are we following you guys?’ It’s hard not to see that.”
At CNN, host Christiane Amanpour pushed back on Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, who said of China in a recent opinion article, “A million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz are locked away in gulags. They are raped, tortured with electric batons, sterilized, and forced into abortions. Taiwan’s sovereignty is continually threatened. Hong Kong’s democracy is strangled.”
Wait a minute, said the CNN host. Some “from abroad” might respond to Young’s (accurate) characterization by saying, “Hold on a second. America’s preaching democracy to us but yet, you know, treating democracy rather cavalierly.”
According to Amanpour, a good recent example of the U.S.’s supposedly “cavalier” treatment of democracy includes the Republican National Committee’s censure of Republican Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois for joining the committee to investigate the Jan. 6 riot.
So, you know — who are we to judge genocide? We censured a legacy politician!
At ESPN, which has an informal “no criticizing China” policy, panelist and Northwestern University journalism professor J.A. Adande likewise questioned whether the U.S. has a leg to stand on insofar as human rights violations are concerned.
“Who are we to criticize China’s human rights records when we have ongoing attacks by the agents of the state against unarmed citizens and we’ve got assaults on the voting rights of our people of color in various states in this country?” he asked. “So, sports — I think it is possible — and it’s necessary more than ever — to just shut everything out if you are to enjoy the actual Games themselves.”
He added, “Where can you choose that’s free? And look at some of the other recent hosts of the Games, including Russia and some other recent places. It’s very hard to find a country that isn’t problematic when it comes to human rights, including here.”
Huh … whatever dishonest whataboutism helps you sleep at night as you condone a literal genocide.
