Whataboutism¶
Economist, T. (2008). Whataboutism. The Economist.
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- Tu Quoque
- Whataboutism is the established label for its recurring political-rhetoric instantiation, particularly in state-to-state exchanges where each side responds to the other's human-rights criticism by citing the critic's own failings
This sourceSoviet whataboutism citing US racial injustice and its revival in contemporary Russian state rhetoric. The stock Soviet rejoinder 'And you are lynching Negroes' to Western human-rights criticism.
- Whataboutism is the established label for its recurring political-rhetoric instantiation, particularly in state-to-state exchanges where each side responds to the other's human-rights criticism by citing the critic's own failings
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