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This is what-about-ism. I am surprised you didn't mention that we are less free to smoke in public places! Here's the thing: Laws about where you can smoke an
by georgeecollins 5y ago
This is what-about-ism. I am surprised you didn't mention that we are less free to smoke in public places!
Here's the thing: Laws about where you can smoke and drink vary from place to place in the US but in every part of them you are free to complain about them. The laws were passed by elected officials. You can start a petition to change them. You can run for mayor on the platform of changing the rules about where you can smoke or drink.
I agree that it is a sad commentary that many Americans don't know about the Tulsa race riot. Yet here we are discussing it. A popular TV show in the US (The Watchmen) depicted it quite graphically. Could those things happen with Tiananmen Square in China?
- sschueller 5y agoI personally feel that the term "what-about-ism" is excessively used to down play the wrongs of a other party. Especially when that other party is pretending to be at a higher moral ground than the one they are critical about. One should not make things OK because someone else does it but one should point out the wrongs another party is engaged in especially if it is hypocritical. In this case however I didn't say what about, I did suggest an alternative to Ops comment which in itself may have been what about ism.