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"you're ruining my point by showing my hypocrisy"

• smcl 5y ago
  Precisely. Also I think I'm being downvoted by people misinterpreting my use of "usually" as "in every single case without exception". But anecdotally, nearly every time I've seen the whataboutism response it has been in that context I described - someone trying to dismiss a legitimate criticism by deploying what they think is a sort of cheat code.
• FpUser 5y ago
  Exact reason I think ;) Or maybe they feel so righteous that they do not even notice their hypocrisy.