>You can't have historical discussions of Fascism/National Socialism without first discussing Communism. This is the most baffling whataboutism topic to me (be

>You can't have historical discussions of Fascism/National Socialism without first discussing Communism. This is the most baffling whataboutism topic to me (because of how common it is, and how obviously fallacious it is). There are, of course, plenty of cases where you can reasonably have a conversation about fascism or communism without the prerequisite of examining its relationship to the other. You may criticize people for omitting such context in cases where its absence is conspicuous, and you probably should, since I think that's the more realistic goal people who put forward this provocative fallacy are usually trying to get to.