> Don't worry, they've discovered it.

Oh. No. Don't you get it: The Western World is exactly the same as the Far East, exactly the same as Africa, and so on. For every Great Leap Forwards there's a Holocaust, for every Congolese war there's an English Civil War, and so on, and so forth, tit for tat, with absolutely no difference at all between Winston Churchill and Mao Zedong. Exactly the same. Otherwise, it's just racist.

I'm quite happy to play this game with you if you set the rules. If we include the 19th and 20th Century and I'm allowed to include Russia as 'The West' then game on...

But I think you're getting irate about a sub-text rather than the game at hand so let's discuss what's really bothering you.

> But I think you're getting irate about a sub-text rather than the game at hand so let's discuss what's really bothering you.

In simple language: The inability of some people, all of whom I strongly suspect are from stable First World democracies of the type Freedom House ranks highly, being unable to see any difference between, as I said, Churchill and Mao, or George W. Bush and Robert Mugabe.

Every single thing they disagree with is exactly equivalent, making their arguments a massive exercise in the False Dilemma: You agree with them or you're morally supporting the Great Leap Forwards, Rwandan Genocide, and female genital mutilation, even if the actual topic is tax policy.

In short, they're just annoying idiots who have no real perspective trying to sound like they know something. Their use of 'racism' claims as a convenient dodge is just the icing on the cake.