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Congrats! You have successfully done a brigading! Pat yourself on the back! Next seminar, we will be covering how to subtly deceive strategically-important redditors with a simple tactic they don’t know of called ‘whataboutism’ sicko-hexbear

Edit: meant to post this in the secret group chat where we coordinate the fall of the west. Sorry y’all. My bad deeper-sadness

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you sure that we should use "whataboutism"? It's actually a logical fallacy.

Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation. From a logical and argumentative point of view it is considered a variant of the tu-quoque pattern (Latin 'you too', term for a counter-accusation), which is a subtype of the ad-hominem argument.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the time libs use accusations of it improperly in the first place. Shit like:

A: "Cuba is a failed state."

B: "Cuba's difficulties arise mostly from the American embargo."

A: "America? Oh my God whataboutism!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, I just found out that I missed the sarcasm in "a simple tactic they don’t know of called ‘whataboutism’". I did get the sarcasm for the rest of the post, but for some reason I did not realize that that sentence was also sarcastic. Apparently it's making fun of people calling our arguments whataboutism, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago