Is it Hypocrisy?

Question

When you consider taking a wall down in other country a sign of progress (i.e Germany.) and you build a bigger one in your own country.

Answer 1

Makes no sense at all to me. More than hypocrisy it is complete ignorance.

Answer 2

In Germany the fall of the Berlin Wall was significant because the wall should have never gone up in the first place. Communist Russia took divided Germany into two countries against the will of the German people. In the United States we are building a wall with Mexico to protect our borders from drug trading, illiegal immmigration, and potential terrorists. We have every right to make sure our borders our secured and our immigration laws are obeyed.

Answer 3

The concept of progress had NOTHING to with the actual Berlin Wall. In fact, some people wish it had been left up, at least part of it, for historical value.

That wall was a SYMBOL of something larger: the fall of communism. End of communism in eastern europe was the progress, not knocking down the wall.

All that is similar about the two situations you're comparing is that they involve walls. Yes, ignorance is annoying.

Answer 4

No. Two entirely different circumstances. East Germany built a wall to keep it's people in. No one was trying to get into East Germany, illegally.
The US did not build the wall in Germany. The US is being invaded by illegal aliens. The wall will help keep undesirables out.

Answer 5

In this case, no. The Berlin wall was raised by a totalitarian government bent on keeping its people enslaved. The proposed wall on the US border is a defensive act meant to protect citizens of this country from a literal hemorrhage of the population of a neighboring nation.

Answer 6

Mexicans were held as slave laborers for 45 years by a hostile foreign occupier that built a wall to keep them in? What on earth kind of logical fallacy is this? Americans aren't allowed national sovereignty or enforcement of their laws? This is laughable.

Answer 7

No. Because the german wall split one country in 2. The US wall would keep out other countries. Totally different issue.

Answer 8

Hypocrisy is a deliberate pretence used to convey sentiments or ideas that are false (acting as if one likes something or someone or agrees with a belief or political position when in fact they do not).

Answer 9

The wall is to keep out the atacking invader. The other day I went outside and dodge all the laser beams from the attacking Mexicans. They are coming to eat everyone up and rob everyone and make us non-white. Go americqa.

we are th bestor.

Answer 10

Comparing the practices of keeping people like prisoners in their own country and keeping law-breaking intruders out of a country is like comparing apples and tractors.

Answer 11

A wall symbolizes the line in the sand. It loudly announces who is friend and who is foe. When the US builds a wall between Canada and itself, then you will realize the true extent of paranoia.