I was recently made aware of or reminded of some other Waters' views, which I very much disagree with. He seems to be in a camp of people I think are wrongly one-sided in some of their morality, leaving them with some valid points but missing others including bigger ones.
In particular I'm referring to his defense of China's government. He made a comment in response to the government's wrongs that China didn't invade Iraq and cause all the harm that did.
Well, ok. That's a comment you see about China, pointing to their low level of attacking other countries. Their defenders usually overstate it claiming they have never attacked another country, but it's a fair point that the west has a much worse history of it.
But it can't be left there - ignoring how terrible in other ways the regime is, and how oppressive to their own people, much less the other people they have control over, Tibet, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Uyghurs, soon Taiwan, off the top of my head.
This is a danger of these issues - that essentially anyone who didn't do the Holocaust is not as bad as Hitler, therefore not so bad. China's wrongs whitewash US wrongs, US wrongs whitewash China wrongs, and so on. There is a larger context.
This is some of the harm that blind defenders of the US or the west do - by wrongly refusing to acknowledge wrongs, they invalidate criticism of others like Putin and China. 'Our murders' don't matter, theirs do. It has the effect of harming human rights. That's not false equivalency; there isn't equivalency, but there is a lot more shared wrong than they admit.
In other words, China SHOULD be strongly condemned; Putin SHOULD be strongly condemned; but so should some acts by the US and others, for similar reasons. Otherwise, the slogan "might makes right" is pretty literally the argument.
And that's bad for human rights. Back to Waters, my point is that the attacks on him of Anti-Semitism seem to be the common wrong attacks of that for criticizing Israel's crimes, but that I think there are other areas to disagree with him on. Having said that, I haven't seen one post of someone watching the video the thread is about, that is important to understanding the issue of his comments.
