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Relevance? Why do you feel a need to pull out such arguments when we have a complete war criminal over in the kremlin?


It's relevant, because we didn't ban western media (well, our own) back then, for spreading false propaganda (ending in many many deaths), and we're banning RT now, because it's "them" and not "us".

If we hate false news/propaganda/... then ban cnn (and many other media), but we clearly want (and allow) "that kind" of propaganda, just not the russian one.


There's a big difference between intentionally lying and saying things that you honestly believed but turned out to be false.


I mean honestly.... I know it's not bbc, but still:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/may/17/evacua...

Look at the headline image, the title ("evacuated"), and the "feels" that they're trying to produce. And the reality? They surrendered and were taken as prisoners of war to siberia.

If someone has surrendered, i want our media to report "surrendered" and if they were taken as prisoners, I want to see "prisoners" mentioned somewhere... I have no idea what they were trying to achieve with an article like this, but it sure as hell wasn't truthful reporting.


Whataboutism is a longstanding Russian doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes




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