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by EGreg 3138 days ago
Can you post some links about this?
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Search for 'whataboutism' wiki (and check the rational wiki as well).

> Lexicographers date the first appearance of the variant whataboutism to the 1990s,[1][4] while other historians state that during the Cold War Western officials referred to the Soviet and Russian propaganda strategy by that term.[7]

One of the iconic examples, though it predates the popularization of the term, is well-known/documented enough to have its own Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes