a post about how many nazis remained in positions of power is made, the op is called a tankie and people defend the decision to keep nazis around
a post about how many nazis remained in positions of power is made, the op is called a tankie and people defend the decision to keep nazis around
Also saying the USSR was bad and doing a ‘whataboutism’ by criticising the US for lynching black people, like KKK apologia to go along with the Nazi apologia.![fash-bash fash-bash](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/a9cea4eb-ca59-47ba-9dcb-0184ad324850.png)
![cure-for-fascism cure-for-fascism](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7c1a3a1b-1ca4-4040-a263-00da4856fb96.png)
This one goes back a long way
My brain just cannot process someone responding to the criticism of "your shithole country has a bad habit of publicly executing black people for fun when they're bored, because they know there will never be any consequences" to "look everybody, more ridiculous Russia propaganda from uncle vlad, haha so crazy. he's probably drunk on tractor vodka again"
Our society is so racist, and racism is so normalized we can't even process it as something that can or should be fixed.
Oh god, now I'm imaging the future where liberals find this and re-write America's long history of lynching black people. They'll call anyone who points it out a Russian bot![aware aware](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/01d24e34-2c24-4237-92d1-89d190392a63.gif)
I live in the south, white libs already decided to agree they won the war on racism decades ago
Shit I think MLK JR wrote a letter about it before Edgar Hoover started sending him fan mail and brass coated lead boat tail hollowpoint edition lifetime achievement awards
They've already written off any post-Biden winning BLM activity as Russian influence a few times I think. So it wouldn't surprise me.
Copypasting an old comment: Reminder that "whataboutism" was literally coined (originally as "whataboutery") by some absolute cull Irish journalist who supported the British during the Troubles. He needed to invent a way to not get constantly owned by everybody around him when he'd bitch about the IRA, and people would just point out what the British forces had done that either directly spurred the retaliation he was whining about, or things the Brits did that were just blatantly worse.
I know Ben Burgis kind of sucks, but he had a good article about "whataboutism" and the abuse of crying whataboutism to get out of basic calls for moral consistency:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/03/is-whataboutism-always-a-bad-thing
From the article:
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Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?