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whataboutery

/ ˌɑːəˈʊəɪ /

noun

  1. (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"Listening to a fellow woman talk about another woman opening her legs in Parliament using that kind of misogynistic language, or the whataboutery to actually try and take it away from the failure of this government not just now, but for the last 12 years of austerity."

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For Britons, the dictionary notes that “whataboutery” is more commonly used.

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We can all climb aboard the Big Dipper of Whataboutery – How can you criticise football’s obsession with petrodollars if you think Vincent Kompany seemed like a good bloke?

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Pramesh dismisses that argument as “whataboutery.”

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This is not intended as a piece of whataboutery or a comparison with the scars and the significance of actual, forced, seagoing, murderous European slavery.

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