Earlier quoted context omitted.
>A lot of people in the West find that kind of authoritarianism repugnant. A lot of people in the West find satisfaction in exercising repugnant authoritarianism. "A lot of" is a conveniently vague quantity. However you quantify it, it's absolutely nothing near the scale of institutional and cultural support for authoritarianism in China.
However you quantify it, it's absolutely nothing near the scale of institutional and cultural support for authoritarianism in China. However you quantify it, there's far, far too much of it here in the United States and in the Western world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9mkA1GBY2k
This kind of anti-nuance approach is problematic for two reasons. For one, it serves the propagandistic purpose of sheltering China from criticism by falsely equating them to the US. For another, if you're constantly equivocating between completely different scales of moral error, you're not going to understand when one set of practices is better than another and you're not going to be able grasp what moral progress looks in a complicated world.