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“And you are lynching negroes” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes Or if you
by braythwayt 8y ago
“And you are lynching negroes”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
Or if you prefer, the contemporary form:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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This varient is particularly useful against anybody with a social justice argument. Let’s say I complain about Google and what appears to be systemic support for sexual coercion by male managers. You can trot out, “But it’s far worse at Uber, did you complain then? No? Have you taken an Uber since then? You have? You have no right to complain now.”
Or maybe I say that migrant children have been separated from their families. “You’re a Canadian. Did you speak out against Residentual Schools? No? Then shut up about migrant families.”
It’s endlessly applicable.