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J&J poisoning babies doesn't make Facebook less bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

• mysecretaccount 5y ago
  The term "whataboutism" is often used (like in this case) to shield against legitimate criticism. The above poster is not claiming that FB is not bad or should not be criticized - he is saying that he thinks the media treatment of contemporary moral issues is not weighted properly. Maybe you still disagree with him, but simply calling "whataboutism" muddies the water. Here is a great episode of Citations Needed about the term "whataboutism": https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-66-whataboutism-the-medias-favorite-rhetorical-shield-against-criticism-of-us-policy https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-66-whatabouti...
  • isoskeles 5y ago
    Thank you for the link. Kind of awesome there's an hour long podcast on this concept.
  • supercanuck 5y ago
    This thread went Meta and we are no longer talking about Facebook. You just did the same thing.