I think it was Matt Taibbi who pointed out something I should have realized on my own. Words like 'whataboutism' are exactly what Orwell described in 1984 as do

I think it was Matt Taibbi who pointed out something I should have realized on my own. Words like 'whataboutism' are exactly what Orwell described in 1984 as doublespeak. Not a close match, not a good analogy, but the actual phenomenon explored in the novel.