In Communist North Korea, the people are distracted by xenophobic propaganda and unable to realize they are being oppressed
Chinese person: “You guys should probably take action and stop this.”
Liberals as they are being lined up against the wall by fascist paramilitaries on orders of Supreme-President Generalissimo Tom Cotton for the charge of being last seen interacting with a Trans person: “But the Uyghurs-!”
(I swear, after this, if I see the word “whataboutism” once, I’m going to flip a table)
this is actually a soviet ussr tactic invented by Karl Marx to try to force the conversation to be about problems that actually exist, I forgot the word for it.