https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/germany-and-genocide FWIW, I agree with the Prof.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in response to Vice President Vance’s Munich speech on February 14 and his meeting with the head of the AfD that same day:

“A commitment to ‘never again’ is not reconcilable with support for the AfD.”

But, apparently that commitment is reconcilable with German support of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, to include going to great lengths to suppress protests of that genocide inside Germany.

And what does this say about Germany’s commitment to free speech?

    • badwetter@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      6 days ago

      Whataboutism is a false construct. It’s only used as an excuse when there isn’t a valid legitimate response to be had.

      • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Of course it’s a construct, you constructed or at least parroted it. It is connecting two unrelated topics as if they where connected, i.e. the US vice-president supporting a facist party and the German chancellor speaking out against it, and the current German government tolerating a facist government in Israel.

        At most you can point some the hypocrisy here, although I would to point out that there are politicians who spoke out against Israel, our foreign minister included, and that the situations are completely different. One is about foreign interference in elections and the other is basically about arms deals and inaction.

        What is even the point of connecting these topics? Government bad, better vote facist?