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No. Whataboutism is an attempt to change the topic. "Why are you wasting time on A when B is so much more important?" The comment you're replying to is more "t
by tbrownaw 2y ago
No. Whataboutism is an attempt to change the topic. "Why are you wasting time on A when B is so much more important?"
The comment you're replying to is more "that reasoning would imply Z, which does not appear to be the case."
(If it was assumed that people already knew about those other companies, then the comment would be more calling out an isolated demand for rigor... which is also not whataboutism despite occasionally being denounced as such.)