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Whataboutism. Every. Single. Time. Over and over, unabated. But What About Twitter

• yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  You know "Whataboutism" isn't a magic word that lets you ignore an argument, right? If Twitter has extremist content (or death threats, or racism, or whatever) and isn't banned, then that is evidence that that's not the real reason for another app to have been banned. Weak evidence? Maybe. Open to argument about proportions of "bad" content? Absolutely. But still evidence.
  • sofixa 5y ago
    > You know "Whataboutism" isn't a magic word that lets you ignore an argument, right? If Twitter has extremist content (or death threats, or racism, or whatever) and isn't banned, then that is evidence that that's not the real reason for another app to have been banned Parler were banned for refusing to properly moderate ( while having no problem with moderating any content they disagreed with), not for having hateful content. When you report similar content on Twitter or Facebook, they usually do something. So yes, this is classic and very useless whataboutism. Don't you have anything meaningful to add to the conversation?
    • yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
      We appear to have very different ideas of what whataboutism is. If twitter and parler are actually different, then just say that. There's no reason to dismiss the argument without meeting it. > Don't you have anything meaningful to add to the conversation? And in any event, there's no reason to resort to personal attacks.
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  • cozuya 5y ago
    Yes it is, I and almost certainly a large amount of people just blip right over whataboutism posts. Everyone is fed up with this style of deflection. Its just.. old. The discussion is about Parler, if you can't talk about it without the constant barrage of "well what about what Twitter does??" then maybe don't hit reply at all.