> I'm not defending China, I'm just saying many countries do terrible things - also democratic ones (sometimes it's the goverment, sometimes it's the people).
Great, then you can write a blog post about that and post it to HN and we’ll discuss those atrocities on that post.
Meanwhile let’s stay on topic here, and discuss an article written by a HK citizen to Chinese citizens about China.
This is whataboutism, a classic conversational anti pattern that rears its head every single time China comes up on HN. It’s time to stop.