[angoragoats]

His reply was not whataboutism; it was a legitimate and direct retort to your post that exposes that what you asserted was false.

[crims0n]

You can literally replace the first four words in their sentence with “What about when”.

[angoragoats]

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.

[crims0n]

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?

[angoragoats]

Nope.