Double standard
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A double standard is a rule or principle which ought to be applied equally (or in all cases), but which is used selectively to advance a hidden purpose.
The history of politics is full of examples of this sort of hypocrisy.
- Cambodia and Chile: In the 1970s, the New York Times published hundreds of articles about the 3,000 "disappearances" of Augusto Pinochet's political opponents after the 1973 Chile coup. They only published two articles about the 2,000,0000 people murdered by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.