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minus-squarekadup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoUnrelated to what? The comment is very much related to this post.
minus-squareAlwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoIt literally isn’t. It’s pointing out that this is the pot calling the kettle black. Whataboutism would be like “the US uses its media funding apparatus to keep certain ideas out of public consciousness.”
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days ago Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in “what about …?”) is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.
minus-squareAlwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoSurely you can see how that’s a different thing when you engage in the exact type of behaviors you’re accusing others of. Surely.
minus-squarethisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoI’m defending my argument that the first comment was indeed whataboutism. Are you confused?
minus-squarekadup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoYou repeating your favorite buzzword hardly matters to me.
Unrelated to what? The comment is very much related to this post.
it’s whataboutism
It literally isn’t.
It’s pointing out that this is the pot calling the kettle black.
Whataboutism would be like “the US uses its media funding apparatus to keep certain ideas out of public consciousness.”
Surely you can see how that’s a different thing when you engage in the exact type of behaviors you’re accusing others of. Surely.
I’m defending my argument that the first comment was indeed whataboutism. Are you confused?
You repeating your favorite buzzword hardly matters to me.