Search results for query: Whataboutery

...of the vote to make sure their Orange Jesus became the "duly elected" president-for-life. What's a little treason for funsies? Nice whataboutery, though. You could set it to The William Tell Overture. . . Wutabout wutabout wutabout-bout-bout Wutabout wutabout wutabout-bout-bout Wutabout...

Of course they do. We just try to keep the whataboutery to a minimum, recognizing it as a cheap and fairly stupid diversionary tactic.

I'm going to engage in some whataboutery here. Wutabout convicted felon Trump? Anybody heard his away-with-the-fairies ramble about electrocution and sharks? This is the kind of lucid clarity you want fingering the nuclear button?

Is whataboutery a logical fallacy in Islam?

...Had he manned up and signed up, he never woulda been called. And yes, before one of the Bright Sparks of Westernesse cranks up his whataboutery machine, Bill Clinton did the same, though in point of fact he voluntarily surrenderd his student deferment and took a number. He drew 311 and was...

...the Jewish Space Lasers to attack Hamas. Or maybe they're only tasked to start wildfires in California. Tlaib had it coming though. Whataboutery is a feeble reed here. Not all murderers are caught. That doesn't mean the ones who are shouldn't be punished. And I'm really tired of hearing...

Sorry, had a massive pizza order to deliver. Baltimore was celebrating the Ravens' epic ass-kicking of the Detroit Lions. Whataboutery has certain legitimate uses, like pointing out that Islam is certainly not alone in advocating jihad against other beliefs. Particularly given the tenor of so...

Try whataboutery next. Whatever it takes to get your own personal Jesus off.

W Whataboutery. It's a little bit of red herring and a little bit of false equivalence. With a smooth ad hominem topping, it's a symphony in fallacy!

Not at all. I'm guilty of bothsidesism, not whataboutery. Because both sides actually do it. The funny part is you honestly believe the right is a tower of truth and justice, with nary a scrap of lying, hypocrisy, or dishonesty in it.

We probably need a thread "White Lives Matter: The Ugliness of Whataboutery."

Wutabout Hillary is classic whataboutery. But do compare the wrongdoings. Let's see how they're "the same or very similar." You can start by demonstrating that Hillary ignored repeated requests to turn over the documents after she was no longer Secretary of State.

No point, Serryah. Just another whataboutery. Anything to divert attention from the issue, which is that Trump removed classified documents from a secure facility and refused to return them despite repeated requests. They tried to do this the easy way, he chose the hard way.

...I have demonstrated that slavery was uniquely evil. Responding to statements about the morality or legality of slavery of Blacks in America is either simply wrong or cheap whataboutery. If you insist that you are not wrong, I have nothing further to say. And I'm bored stiff by whataboutery.

What, fail? Yep, that's normally what you do. But this one's a small step up from your whataboutery and "We can't have laws that people will break!"

As did you, son. You know why. By the way, it wasn't whataboutery, it was bothsidesism. Which is not a fallacy. It just annoys people who want to pretend only one side is bad.

And in how many of them do people desperately try to distract attention from the subject by screaming about a whole 'nother subject? And why are you trying to justify your whataboutery? Hell, in your initial whatabout in the Uvalde thread, you admitted you were whatabouting. Own it.

...allow you to pull over and call/text/get your funny-cat fix, but would prevent you from doing it while driving. What say y'all? I woulda put this in the thread on the Uvalde massacre, but that would be whataboutery and pretending I give two shits, and I try not to indulge in cheap fallacies.

Yep, countries can only be sued if they consent. The U.S. has consented ad hoc a couple of times, and has the Federal Tort Claims Act, which Congress passed to allow people hurt by the government to be sued for a specific list of torts. Clearly he considered Canada a "soft target." He doesn't...

So keep your eye on the ball. Canada has the same sovereign immunity the U.S. has. Whataboutery is a weak argument.