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LetsGetTechnicl
89 days ago
Oh, okay. I guess that's a convenient excuse to not have to back up your words.
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crims0n
89 days ago
This is hn not reddit, do you really expect a response to your whataboutism?
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angoragoats
88 days ago
His reply was not whataboutism; it was a legitimate and direct retort to your post that exposes that what you asserted was false.
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crims0n
88 days ago
You can literally replace the first four words in their sentence with “What about when”.
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angoragoats
87 days ago
That’s not what whataboutism is; it requires the “what about when” to be followed by a change of topic, to distract the other party from the original topic.
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crims0n
87 days ago
Like when I made a comment on general etiquette and someone else shifted the conversation to one of the worst moments of the civil rights movement?
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angoragoats
87 days ago
Nope.
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LetsGetTechnicl
89 days ago
"Whataboutism" is just asking you to validate your claims, I guess.
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crims0n
87 days ago
You don’t need me to validate it for you, search “never discuss politics or religion in polite company” - it was a common maxim.
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