• skeptomatic@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Ah, “whataboutism”.
    The new, “gaslighting” to be thrown around without understanding. 😆

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      3 days ago

      a rhetorical tactic and logical fallacy where someone responds to a criticism or accusation not by defending their position, but by deflecting blame and making a counter-accusation. It serves to distract from the original issue by shifting focus …

      Nope, I think that’s pretty well understood, since it’s exactly what’s happening here.

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          You don’t get to decide who’s qualified or not, since you have no problem with genocide and all. LMAO

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            Oh but you get to decide who understands, huh?
            What a stupid take. Lol you’re a fucking clown.
            Also, where did you get that I “have no problem with genocide”.
            I swear to god it’s like talking to half-wits on Lemmy most of the time…

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              Mmm, loving the ad hominem! You deflect from the East’s genocides because the West does the same, as if that excuses the East for doing it. That’s classic whataboutism and a common tactic of those who don’t have a problem with Eastern genocide.

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                2 days ago

                Uh… nope.
                Nothing I said deflects or excuses.
                If anything, it includes.
                There seems to be a problem with reading comprehension around here.

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      3 days ago

      it’s literally narcissism, I tell you what, all of these gas lighters and their whataboutisms, they are committing literary genocide