Hypocrisy
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If they fail to apply the same standards to their own leaders, is there not a whiff of
hypocrisy?
To declare, as the President of the European Commission did, that this is an internal Spanish problem in which the EU has no say is
hypocrisy
on stilts.
Of course,
hypocrisy
has long been at the center of the EU’s behavior.
Ironically, the American plan is taking shape even before the US takes any action to reduce its own emissions, inviting charges of hypocrisy, violation of international law, and threatening a major trade war.
The third strategy is simple hypocrisy: Europe would talk like a responsible stakeholder, but act like a profit maximizer.
This raises a key issue that the Tsipras government and many others misunderstood throughout the Greek crisis: the role of constructive
hypocrisy
in Europe’s political economy.
Leaving aside the
hypocrisy
of Western governments pontificating on this topic while they are bailing out banks after massive regulatory failures, the proposal is seriously flawed.
Even with Obama as president, they may be quick to denounce the combination of arrogance and
hypocrisy
that they see as linked to America’s view of her “special and unique mission.”
But, to sustain the charade of a strong and prosperous Russia, standing against the predations and
hypocrisy
of the West, the regime cannot be as authoritarian as Putin himself might wish.
There is justice in this, particularly given the
hypocrisy
of those countries who proclaim their faith in free trade while every day praying at the altar of protectionism.
Communists saw social democrats as a greater danger than Nazis; and leftwing intellectuals were distracted by the
hypocrisy
and corruption of mainstream parties they really should have supported.
Indeed, anything worthwhile that a monarch can do, an elected non-executive president can do better – not least because an elected official is much less likely to be undermined by the scandals of pampered offspring or degraded by the inevitable
hypocrisy
and servility of a royal court.
Indeed, at the slightest provocation, Putin will be able to point to America’s
hypocrisy
for spying on, say, European Union facilities as part of expanded surveillance programs supposedly within the scope of the war on terror, and for hunting Snowden after accusing Russia of unfairly prosecuting the whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky.
In the short term, a little
hypocrisy
may seem like a small price to pay for a quick victory.
This was rank hypocrisy, given that Modi has been traveling the world lauding the achievements and contributions of the Indian diaspora.
But the sheer
hypocrisy
of government officials proclaiming the need for austerity and encouraging public sacrifice for the sake of long-term prosperity, while secretly avoiding that effort, is a galling violation of trust in democratic countries.
The US and those representing it have been guilty of hubris (the US may often be the indispensable nation, but it would be better if others pointed this out), and examples of inconsistency between America’s practices and its principles understandably provoke charges of
hypocrisy.
Is the US guilty of hypocrisy, as Russia, China, and others have charged?
It is tactically useful for Russia, China, and others to conflate espionage issues with civil liberties and accuse the US of
hypocrisy.
Rather than demonstrating
hypocrisy
and acceptance of the erosion of civil liberties, the Snowden disclosures have provoked a debate that suggests the US is living up to its democratic principles in its traditionally untidy ways.
That political
hypocrisy
comes at a price: obese Americans incur medical costs that are 42% higher than those of normal-weight Americans.
Yet, for red-state politicians, this
hypocrisy
has been a winning electoral strategy for three decades.
Although most do not support Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, or the al-Saud family, they see
hypocrisy
in Western criticism of these leaders that is designed to manipulate and marginalize – after all, the West does not really want to push these regimes too far.
In fact, Trump’s behavior has heightened the sense of US hypocrisy, emboldening China further in its territorial and maritime revisionism in the Indo-Pacific region.
This may mean that the surveys I have quoted indicate not widespread equality, but widespread
hypocrisy.
Nevertheless,
hypocrisy
is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, and the fact that racists and sexists must pay this tribute is an indication of some moral progress.
Okonjo-Iweala put the matter forcefully in an interview with the Financial Times: what is at stake is a matter of
hypocrisy.
Nor does the appearance of
hypocrisy
end there.
China’s response to the intervention was to feign outrage, describing it as an illegal intrusion into its sovereign waters and a sign of American hypocrisy; the United States cares when China builds artificial islands in the South China Sea, the Chinese argue, but not when Vietnam or the Philippines do the same.
Since I have never had either the benefits or misfortunes of adhering to any religion, it might smack of
hypocrisy
for me to defend those who have.
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