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Whataboutism/Whataboutery
Topic Started: Nov 15 2017, 10:20 AM (237 Views)
Steve K
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Whataboutism (technically a variant of the Tu Quoque ad hom attack) is I admit a new term to me but now I see it is far from unknown here

A shamelessly disingenuous tactic first industrialised by the Soviet Union, it has this general form

i) Person A makes claim X.
ii) Person B asserts that A's hasn't claimed some other vaguely alignable point.
iii) Therefore X is false

Trump has become its latest serial mass public user. Whatever, it's a term we're going to hear more of.
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Barry
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I've always known it as whataboutery.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whataboutery
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Steve K
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Barry
Nov 15 2017, 10:23 AM
I've always known it as whataboutery.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whataboutery
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However I see your Whataboutery wiki link and raise you a Whataboutism wiki link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism ;-)

Will amend the thread title
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papasmurf
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what about +‎ -ery Commonly used in describing political discourse during the Northern Ireland troubles.
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Steve K
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papasmurf
Nov 15 2017, 10:42 AM
what about +‎ -ery Commonly used in describing political discourse during the Northern Ireland troubles.
Indeed so. It was the standard tool of IRA apologists
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johnofgwent
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Often used by pots to deflect criticism when they call kettles black, IMO
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Alberich
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But what about the workers, I hear you ask. Cue Smurfy!
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ranger121
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Won't someone please think of the children?
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