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This usually because liberals cannot tell the difference between establishing the hypocrisy of a massively skewed double standard (e.g. China is harassing people in the SCS being met with, China hasn't fired upon a single vessel in 37 years meanwhile the US has killed scores of people in illegal attacks on unarmed boats and double tap strikes which are a war crime) and whataboutism like what's going on here, where the meme states the there are people who are against the Western empire but only consume Western media and believe the lies Western media tells about US adversaries being met "but China does bad things too and they also do propaganda" which is not calling out the hypocrisy of a skewed double standard but rather saying that the reason it's not appropriate to criticize people for believing US propaganda is because China does "bad things" and also engaged in propaganda. There's not even specifics in there, it's just a straight up pointing at China and saying "but but those things are true!"
Which is hilarious because it's essentially confirming the critique of the meme. Even using the name "ccp" is imperial propaganda, as nearly every single communist party in history has adopted the naming convention "Communist Party of", in this case Communist Party of China, or CPC, just like the CPUSA or the CPI (India), or the CPV (India).
So not only is the commenter doing a whataboutism, they are demonstrating that they are propagandized and have either no awareness of it or no problem with it, which is exactly what the meme is purporting to be true.