right, sorry for bringing up the US and Taiwan while we were talking about ... the US and Taiwan.
Really gives the game away that "whataboutism" just means "there can be no criticism of the US empire".
Really gives the game away that “whataboutism” just means “there can be no criticism of the US empire”.
:astronaut-2::astronaut-1:
Watching libs learn about gas lighting and whataboutism and get coached by their thought leaders in exactly how to misuse those concepts to defend the status quo and shut out all critical thinking has been pretty wild.
It's always been like this. Back when Godwin's Law was hip and cool I had a lib pull it on me during an argument about World War II.
You brought up Hitler/the Nazis during an argument about World War II? You fucking monster
Godwin's Law mutated from "every online conversation converges to Hitler" prosac truism into some kind of "mentioning Hitler means you lose" gotcha.
Is Solmeini allowed to visit a sovereign country without being drone struck? Who can say, who can say
Either you judge a country:
- Against some magical fantasy land that does everything perfect and has never existed,
- Against a predecessor government of that same country, or
- Against other countries.
the articles about putin calling the move provocative are really the most fertile ground for it
Well, originally accusing people of "whataboutism" was literally in defense of Jim Crow laws, and we've all seen how libs have used it to deflect from genocidal AmeriKKKan wars that killed millions of brown people, so this at least isn't the worst use of this disgusting, weasely strategy for intellecutally dishonest cowards and liberal pissbaby lackeys of the bourgeoisie.
oh wait, i did a whataboutism on the whataboutism accusations. lol. lmao.
