> whatabboutism First, Substack isn't even mentioned, but I'll assume the author removed it, which likely means it wasn't core to their argument and you missed

> whatabboutism First, Substack isn't even mentioned, but I'll assume the author removed it, which likely means it wasn't core to their argument and you missed the forest for the trees. Second, whatabboutism implies a certain level of intent to derail a conversation in my eyes, it's not about simply saying "what about". One of the problems I've noticed with modern discourse is that everybody has this narrative in their mind that the "others" are here in bad faith and have some box of psychological trickery at their disposal. In this way, maybe it's more expedient to people to attack the presenter instead of the idea, but it's impact on discourse is palpable.