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Classic Chinese / Soviet tactic. Every action can be justified because someone else did something bad at some point in time.
by indemnity 7y ago
Classic Chinese / Soviet tactic. Every action can be justified because someone else did something bad at some point in time.
- knzhou 7y agoSorry if you're that nostalgic, but the cold war ended decades ago.
- refurb 7y agoYou're right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes Use of the phrases like these, exemplifying the tu quoque logical fallacy, was an attempt to deflect criticism of the Soviet Union by referring to racial discrimination and lynching in the United States.
- FpUser 7y agoLook at it from the other angle. If you are to blame someone for doing XYZ I assume that you are sparkling clean. If however you are doing the same thing simply get lost. You have no moral right to blame someone for doing exactly the same thing you do. It is not "Classic Chinese / Soviet tactic (TM)". It is a friggin natural sense of justice that normal people possess.
- jessaustin 7y agoIn modern parlance, a respect for fairness and basic logical coherence is called "whataboutism".
- FpUser 7y agoDo as I say, not as I do. Hear hear.