Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "\"Arrested for a social media post\" | Konstantin Kisin" video.

@Torres-tw3ic Maybe we should be taking the splinter out of our own eye before attempting to take the splinter out of someone else's. Being blind to our own faults would also make one blind to their neighbour's.
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@SeraphsWitness "That's CCP style tyranny." That's from my comment. Which means that I recognise that China has issues with tyranny but it's hypocritical to call them out when we're doing the same thing. People use it as a deflection like children do. "Well, Johnnie's doing it too." As if that makes it all okay. THAT'S my point. Don't call out China when you won't even admit that you're just as guilty or worse, pretend that your tyranny is justified, somehow. If you're willing to admit, that's the log, and are fighting like mad to fix it, it's not hypocritical to call out someone else who doing the same thing. That Biblical injunction goes hand in hand with hypocrisy. You've recognised the severe issues with our hate speech laws. You're working, I hope through your voting practices anyway, to fix it and that means that metaphorically you ARE taking the mote of your own eye. You recognise the mote or beam and because of it, you CAN mention that someone else might also have problems. It's when you're actively doing it, you can't recognise the mote to even honestly criticise others. That's what I'm trying to say.
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@SeraphsWitness And I just gave a long winded reply which basically says that if you're willing to admit that you're doing wrong, in your country, then you're not being hypocritical. It's those who are doing wrong and then deflecting by pointing at someone else that's refusing to even TRY to take the mote out of their own eye. They're trying to solve another country's problems and they can't or refuse to see the problems in their own backyard. If they refuse to acknowledge and fix their own problems, who are they to bark at someone else. Although I'm not conflating the 2, hate speech laws are quite enslaving too. It makes us slaves to the state, telling us what we can't say or write. China's slavery may be worse but hate speech is a type of slavery too.
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