From the wikipedia article for "And you are Lynching negroes". It was a phrase sometimes used by the USSR's government in response to American claims of human right abuses
"Former Czech president and writer Václav Havel placed the phrase among "commonly canonized demagogical tricks".[7] The Economist described it as a form of whataboutism that became ubiquitous after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[5] The book Exit from Communism by author Stephen Richards Graubard wrote that it symbolized a divorce from reality.[8]"
It's against the rules to be critical of America, in fact, it's a divorce from reality
From the wikipedia article for "And you are Lynching negroes". It was a phrase sometimes used by the USSR's government in response to American claims of human right abuses
"Former Czech president and writer Václav Havel placed the phrase among "commonly canonized demagogical tricks".[7] The Economist described it as a form of whataboutism that became ubiquitous after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[5] The book Exit from Communism by author Stephen Richards Graubard wrote that it symbolized a divorce from reality.[8]"
It's against the rules to be critical of America, in fact, it's a divorce from reality
There are maybe three ways to judge how a government is doing:
And if you're doing number three, the only way to do it honestly is to hold all governments to that standard.