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I'm not talking about this thread or the discussion in this thread, I'm talking about this: > I like to remind people of shit like this when they claim that th
by markdown 8y ago
I'm not talking about this thread or the discussion in this thread, I'm talking about this:
> I like to remind people of shit like this when they claim that the United States government is an "oppressive" presence on the Internet.
In January, the US Senate passed a bill to renew the NSA’s warrantless internet surveillance program for six years with minimal changes. If walrus01's friends had brought up that topic at the time, it sounds like he'd have defended the program because China is worse. Whataboutism.
- perl4ever 8y agoMaybe? Calling out hypothetical whataboutism of someone else is like whataboutism squared on your part, though. Hyper-whataboutism. Meta-whataboutism. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.