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There's a reasonable argument to be made against the parent, but "what about" isn't it.
by glial 6y ago
There's a reasonable argument to be made against the parent, but "what about" isn't it.
- coldtea 6y agoI find "whataboutism is not an argument" is a knee-jerk conditioned reaction against putting things in perspective. It's almost a Pavlovian thought-stopping response by now - "sure, we have faults but we know them already, can we now concentrate on treating the enemy as some unique evil again?".
- dragonwriter 6y agoNo, it's “uniqueness isn't the argument, stop beating that strawman”.
- free_rms 6y agoChina is uniquely fixated on here on HN, there's a thread every few days painting them as a unique threat.
- Supermancho 6y agoI would say that's all accurate and correctly characterized. Ofc, it's easy to paint something that's already a finished work.
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- CyberDildonics 6y agoWhat about all the other logical fallacies? I think we should address many other logical fallacies before having a conversation about whataboutism.
- Kbelicius 6y agoThat wasn't whataboutism. There isn't any arguments there also. It was simply pointing out that if this man's torture is being added to your karma if you buy anything chines then that would mean that buying anything US made would add all those mentioned things to your karma.