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>whataboutism a "sacred Russian tactic" It's not a tactic, it's rooted in traditional Russian law and stems from belief that you can't judge others while break
by Muromec 9y ago
>whataboutism a "sacred Russian tactic"
It's not a tactic, it's rooted in traditional Russian law and stems from belief that you can't judge others while breaking exact same principle, or generally being immoral yourself. So pointing out that other party is lynching negroes is legit defense from some accusations from that party.
- emodendroket 9y agoToday I learned that the Russians invented criticizing someone for hypocrisy.
- simonh 9y agoExcept of course there wasn’t actually any direct equivalency. The Russian, or Chinese state explicitly and systematically oppressing people as official state policy is not equivalent to illegal oppression by a minority of a minority in another country that it’s government is slowly but successfully fighting. Were the people trying to hold Russia to account for its knowing, deliberate policies themselves personally oppressing black people? Accusations of double standards were completely unwarranted, which is the whole point of whataboutism. Now we’re talking about America’s largely successful, if incomplete struggle against racism instead of the systematic oppression of people in other countries as official state policy. Thanks for that.