I’m not sure. Perhaps one is a descendant of the other? I think whataboutism is like She says The storming of the Capitol was wrong because people died and ou

I’m not sure. Perhaps one is a descendant of the other? I think whataboutism is like She says The storming of the Capitol was wrong because people died and our institution’s citadel was trashed And he says What about the BLM protests - xxx people died and yyy buildings were vandalised at a cost of zzz millions It seems to be some kind of parallel, but not to draw an analogy - rather to excuse an action by making a distraction out of a superficially similar form(?)