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You're using the wrong definition based on context clues and trying to correct me based on your wrong interpretation of said wrong definition. This is the most

You're using the wrong definition based on context clues and trying to correct me based on your wrong interpretation of said wrong definition. This is the most HN comment I have ever read, thank you. - Also so you don't claim I'm just dodging the slightly on-topic part of your reply: The government that mass incarcerates it's population, started wars half way across the world for bad reasons, radicalizing generations to come in the process, kills civilians indiscriminately as long as they're brown, etc. has the moral high ground how again? Didn't we literally just pardon a man who brutally murdered people on behalf of our nation in such ruthless fashion, our own elite soldiers turned their backs on him and called him a monster?

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mlyle 7y ago
"Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument. It is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda."
- BoorishBears 7y ago
  I'd swear this was a meta-satire if I didn't know humor isn't allowed on here. I say: It's not cool to make blanket statements about a race based on the way he was treated You say: the state was behind his treatment so that totally makes it ok I say: Ok well our state does terrible things to, how about we not make blanket statements about races and their morality You say: omg argumentative fallacy! This entire thread is a near indefensible comment about a race, you trying to defend that comment on "technical" grounds, but then you want to complain about "whataboutism" as if the root of this wasn't a racist, fallacious, statement. Thanks for the year end laugh, really.
  - mlyle 7y ago
    You're going really far to defend Russia welcoming home as heroes people that have done deplorable things in the West.
    - BoorishBears 7y ago
      Да, я! с новым годом!

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mlyle 7y ago

"Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument. It is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda."

BoorishBears 7y ago
I'd swear this was a meta-satire if I didn't know humor isn't allowed on here. I say: It's not cool to make blanket statements about a race based on the way he was treated You say: the state was behind his treatment so that totally makes it ok I say: Ok well our state does terrible things to, how about we not make blanket statements about races and their morality You say: omg argumentative fallacy! This entire thread is a near indefensible comment about a race, you trying to defend that comment on "technical" grounds, but then you want to complain about "whataboutism" as if the root of this wasn't a racist, fallacious, statement. Thanks for the year end laugh, really.
- mlyle 7y ago
  You're going really far to defend Russia welcoming home as heroes people that have done deplorable things in the West.
  - BoorishBears 7y ago
    Да, я! с новым годом!