Formally speaking, whataboutism is a fallacy most closely related to the ad hominem fallacy, wherein a person responds to an accusation by attacking the person making it.
It is a fallacy because even if the counter-accusation is true, it doesn’t defend whoever is being accused (the lying partner, the messy child, Donald Trump) in the first place. At best, it shows that both parties behaved shamefully. And, of course, two wrongs do not make a right.
Whataboutism is the word hypocrites use to prevent others pointing out that they are, in fact, delusional hypocrites.
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DeleteWhataboutism is what Trumo and his supporters do when the facts are against them
DeleteAnd it's what you try to do every day with Trump
DeletePointing out the reality as certified by jury convictions is not whataboutism. Typical insistence on living in an alternative universe where lies are called truth
DeleteWhen you then turn around and try to ignore Bill Clinton's history of serial rape, then that's hypocrisy.
DeleteGarnel I''l tell you a big secret - Clinton is not the President anymore but Trump is.i Clinton s not even in the government.
DeleteSo? He's still an honoured guest at all the big Democrat events and considered a party elder.
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