{"id":60529,"date":"2021-11-19T08:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T13:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60529"},"modified":"2021-11-19T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T13:18:44","slug":"nobody-who-says-you-can-criticize-washington-and-beijing-actually-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60529","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Who Says \u201cYou Can Criticize Washington AND Beijing\u201d Actually Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/11\/19\/nobody-who-says-you-can-criticize-washington-and-beijing-actually-does\/\">Nobody Who Says \u201cYou Can Criticize Washington AND Beijing\u201d Actually Does<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10776\" class=\"post-10776 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-america tag-beijing tag-china tag-empire tag-imperialism tag-propaganda tag-washington\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-3.jpeg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-3.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-3-300x192.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/medium-3-768x492.jpeg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Listen to a reading of this article:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1162823821&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I criticize the US empire\u2019s manipulations and aggressions on a nation which disobeys its dictates I always get comments from people saying \u201cYou know, Caitlin, two things can be bad at once. You\u00a0<em>can<\/em>\u00a0criticize both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They say it like it\u2019s some kind of profound esoteric insight being passed down from on high instead of a generic response I hear from westerners every single day. Like, oh, you mean I can criticize\u00a0<em>two<\/em>\u00a0things instead of just\u00a0<em>one<\/em>\u00a0thing? You just blew my mind. Thanks for baptizing me with your magic wisdom sauce, Gandalf.<\/p>\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>course<\/em>\u00a0it\u2019s possible to criticize both the US and its targets. That\u2019s obvious to anyone with functioning gray matter between their ears. The issue is that westerners, especially westerners who hasten to urge you to be more critical of governments targeted by western imperialism, do not do this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1461098357095649287&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F11%2F19%2Fnobody-who-says-you-can-criticize-washington-and-beijing-actually-does%2F&amp;sessionId=30bb4c19a0017d02ae4baf289fbbb629b8cf5bcc&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1461098357095649287\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Lately this happens most often with China, since that\u2019s where the propaganda brainwashing has been most concentrated lately. I\u2019ll say something about how the US empire is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/the-coming-war-on-china-watch-john-pilgers-powerfully-relevant-documentary-ec384682fed0\">the clear and obvious aggressor<\/a>\u00a0in the escalating tensions between the two nations or how Australians are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/08\/13\/basing-news-stories-on-corrupt-think-tanks-is-blatant-propaganda\/\">being brainwashed<\/a>\u00a0into supporting a war over Taiwan with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/australian-war-propaganda-keeps-getting\">astonishing forcefulness<\/a>, and some internet genius will wheelbarrow his gigantic brain into my notifications with the comment \u201cCaitlin it\u2019s possible to criticize both the US\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And if there were enough time in the day for me to respond to all of these galaxy-brained intellectual giants I would tell them something like, \u201cOkay. But you don\u2019t. Or if you do it\u2019s not in proportion to how deserving of criticism they both are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody Who Says \u201cYou Can Criticize Washington AND Beijing\u201d Actually Does Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Whenever I criticize the US empire\u2019s manipulations and aggressions on a nation which disobeys its dictates I always get comments from people saying \u201cYou know, Caitlin, two things can be bad at once. You\u00a0can\u00a0criticize both.\u201d They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2045,17039,130,5468,7740,827,3142,865],"class_list":["post-60529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-beijing","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-china","tag-criticism","tag-empires","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60530,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60529\/revisions\/60530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}