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The term “whataboutism” is a tell for intellectual laziness at best. Considering multiple particular cases to draw general conclusions is basic ratiocination. Y
by User23 5y ago
The term “whataboutism” is a tell for intellectual laziness at best. Considering multiple particular cases to draw general conclusions is basic ratiocination. You might as well just call the person you’re talking to a “chud” instead and be done with it.
- gafferongames 5y agoIf you cannot defend a subject without resorting to whataboutism, I would say this instead is intellectual laziness.
- User23 5y agoI wouldn’t call Socrates intellectually lazy.
- gafferongames 5y agoBut what about Socrates?
- smcl 5y agoMore often than not when I've seen "whataboutism" used here it means "You can't say that (about me), I said it (about you) first!" which is in my opinion, intellectually lazy. There are times when a bad faith whatabout-ist argument is made as a diversionary tactic and they are frustrating, but the original comment[0] we are discussing does not feel like that to me. In fact the comment they were replying to is making the lazy and intellectually lacking argument. [0] = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30579098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30579098