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by nojonestownpls 1136 days ago
It's strange that old expressions like "the US is throwing stones from a glass house" or "the US is like a pot calling the kettle black" have existed for a long enough time to be idioms, but the term for decrying such expressions "whataboutism" is relatively much newer and more of a political term than a language idiom.
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Well, being aware of and actively combating propaganda is a fairly recent social development.