# Isn't the US snubbing China's prime minister on human rights grounds a bit rich?

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**Created:** [January 21, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-the-us-snubbing-chinas-prime-minister-on-human-rights-grounds-a-bit-rich/568484 "2011-01-21T19:25:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-the-us-snubbing-chinas-prime-minister-on-human-rights-grounds-a-bit-rich/568484/41 "2011-02-01T01:20:19Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I’d go even further: now that we know that it is wrong, why shouldn’t we be telling others that it’s wrong? If you did hard drugs in the past, and it horribly screwed it up, are you a hypocrite for telling your kids not to let that happen to them?

Not if we’re still committing said acts.

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