• lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    criminalizing being black

    Not much fun or use “debating” someone who says this kind of thing.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not whataboutism, whatever that means. It’s an illustration that the use of ‘authoritarian/ism’ as a pejorative against one state in particular is a kind of inverse category error. The fact that a state is authoritarian is not automatically negative (except to anarchists); the term applies to every state. Hence, to use ‘authoritarian\ism’ to imply a negative is only coherent if one means to criticise the state form itself.