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>so many people genuinely react to these stories with "the other side does it too". As an outsider (I'm Canadian), it seems to me that the left-wing of America
by aguyfromnb 7y ago
>so many people genuinely react to these stories with "the other side does it too".
As an outsider (I'm Canadian), it seems to me that the left-wing of America invented "whataboutism" because their hypocrisy is off the charts.
>It is the type of excuse you expect from an elementary school child.
The idea that you criticize someone for something you yourself are doing is something I'd expect of a child.
- monoideism 7y agoWho is "you yourself" in this analogy? The Obama administration?
- aguyfromnb 7y ago>Who is "you yourself" in this analogy? Anyone crying "that's whataboutism!" in the face of their blatant hypocrisy. I'm not talking about justifying corruption because the other guys do it. But I am talking about things like holding up bills, or filibusters, or whipping the vote, or leaking information, or any other of a multitude of things that one party always seems to lose their mind when it happens like it's never happened before. One party uses something as a political strategy one year, then the next year cries foul like the Union is coming undone when the other side does the same thing. It's stupid.