ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.workscake to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWhite House pushes Biden's Supreme Court proposal despite Republican objections.www.voanews.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1321
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minus-squareyetiftw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agonot saying you’re wrong, but that is a whataboutism
minus-squareOnlyJabs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·11 months agoThis is not a whataboutism, this is calling someone out, and their party out, for their hypocrisy.
minus-squareyetiftw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agobut it functions as a whataboutism. it doesn’t address the original concerns of the statement. instead it uses an ad hominem attach to discredit the argument
minus-squareChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-211 months agoAnd your whining about a whataboutism is itself a red herring. It’s dragging the point away from what it was originally.
not saying you’re wrong, but that is a whataboutism
This is not a whataboutism, this is calling someone out, and their party out, for their hypocrisy.
but it functions as a whataboutism. it doesn’t address the original concerns of the statement. instead it uses an ad hominem attach to discredit the argument
And your whining about a whataboutism is itself a red herring. It’s dragging the point away from what it was originally.
This is gaslighting