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How do you know that pointing out the ‘hypocrisy’ is the propaganda rather than the idea that these values as commonly understood have any basis in reality in the first place?


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Hypocrisy is an outcome of propaganda. Western views on morality demand justification for actions which others would be punished severely for. Yet, behind history, the "good guys" are just as ruthless and brutal as the "bad guys."

The hypocrisy?

It’s the hypocrisy that’s being pointed out

Sure, but what you are describing is much different than "pointing out the hypocrisy"

What hypocrisy are you referencing? I'm not really questioning the veracity of your list of items, to be clear. I just don't see anything that fits the definition of hypocrisy.

Why is it a hypocrisy?

how is it hypocrisy?

How is it hypocritical? I'm asking earnestly as I cannot understand that view point.

conservation of hypocrisy?

What does this have to do with the hypocrisy issue?

Where is there hypocrisy in that? I just can't see any.

Where's the hypocrisy?

so what's the hypocrisy again?

Hypocrisies?

What's the hypocrisy here?

Can you clarify how this correlate to the definition of hypocritical?

I'm really lost.


Hypocrisy but mostly the attempt to unify totally divergent realities, usually by omitting / "forgetting" something.

E.g. you can't be the good guys when you abuse children at your border, so obviously that's fake news (=propaganda by the bad guys) and/or(!) those are criminals anyway (=the propaganda by the bad guys omits those parts showing how what you're doing is the right and overall good thing to do).

Another example where this is readily apparent is Americans and their freedom knee-jerk reflex; all the while the US is a country with some of the most restrictive justice/penal systems in the world, the most powerful surveillance state in the world and also comes with it's own secret court and set of secret laws.

Random quote:

> All men have served their sentence and yet, due to a controversial legal mandate, they remain confined indefinitely.


Love your argument! Nailed it on the hypocrisy.

So... Hypocrisy?
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