Whataboutism

Heybrochacho on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 – 12:24 pm

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"So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?.... [Jefferson] was a major slave owner. Are we going to take down his statue?" — President Trump, Aug. 15, 2017

The president made this statement Tuesday while jabbing at reporters over a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where white nationalists protested the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

And he used one of his standard rhetorical techniques, "whataboutism."

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WALSTIB on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 – 12:40 pm

butbutobamaism...

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Philzone Refugee

Herbal Dave on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 – 01:07 pm

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On Wisconsin on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 – 04:10 pm

Whataboutism is a propaganda

Whataboutism is a propaganda technique formerly used by the Soviet Union in its dealings with the Western world, and subsequently used as a form of propaganda in post-Soviet Russia. When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union, the Soviet response would be "What about..." followed by an event in the Western world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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That’s Nancy with the laughin’ face

Nancyinthesky on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 – 04:47 pm