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by crims0n 88 days ago
You can literally replace the first four words in their sentence with “What about when”.
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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.
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?
Nope.