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whataboutism
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noun
- a conversational tactic in which a person responds to an argument or attack by changing the subject to focus on someone else’s misconduct, implying that all criticism is invalid because no one is completely blameless:
Excusing your mistakes with whataboutism is not the same as defending your record.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of whataboutism1
First recorded in 1975–80; from the phrase what about? + -ism ( def )
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Your mileage may vary as to whether Egg Whataboutism is a feckless approach.
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Whataboutism and bothsidesism are tactics utilized to dismiss moral calls to end genocide.
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Despite the whataboutism of the counter-accusation, they’ve got a point.
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And he did so with his favorite tool: dishonest whataboutism.
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The whataboutism narrative is that this is a race between two old men.
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