stale2002 13 hours ago

> That's horrible.

Indeed it is. And any other whataboutisms you bring up doesn't change that.

The topic was about if there was any leftwing violence. Which there has been. 1-2 billion dollars worth in just that time period. Anything else you bring up doesn't erase that.

> I said something mean about your local sports team.

Actually, you seem to be the one who brought up other teams or sides when I stated a true fact. A fact that you haven't disagree with. You tried to downplay this in your original post and you were wrong to do so.

"You brought up this bad thing, oh yeah, well what about this other completely unrelated bad thing that the other team did!" is precisely the team sports thinking that you have engaged in, not me.

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Smeevy 12 hours ago | parent [-]

One fun thing about talking with right wing internet commenters is that they don't really have any firm beliefs (protecting pedophiles is okay now, the government can take guns away from some people, etc.) and they love to feign grievance about darn near anything. I've got a little time so I might as well take the bait.

>The topic was about if there was any leftwing violence.

Was it? I mentioned the leftist violence, and absence thereof, in particular circumstances that you ignored. There was a slew of other stuff in there, but the main gist was attempting to counteract the other poster whataboutsing Biden saying that MAGA are awful people which, in turn, caused a whirlwind of hurt feelings that forced them vote in an authoritarian. You ignored that and wanted to review financials about black people rioting, thereby missing the forest for the trees and I should not have bothered to respond. Mea culpa.

>"You brought up this bad thing, oh yeah, well what about this other completely unrelated bad thing that the other team did!" is precisely the team sports thinking that you have engaged in, not me.["]

I hope you are not expecting me to take you seriously. I've been whatabouticized so many times by conservative pearl-clutchers online that it has no effect anymore. Near as I can tell, there's only one "team" here and I ain't on it. It seems to revel in disgusting me.

If you can spend even a second defending this administration running roughshod over our Constitution then I have no interest in your political viewpoint. The best time to have been shaming conservatives was decades ago, but I guess now will have to do. My only hope is that the America Right can rediscover their sense of shame.

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stale2002 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> I mentioned the leftist violence, and absence thereof

Yes you did mention this. And it is wrong. As proven by the evidence that I showed you.

> review financials about black people rioting

That actually super racist of you. There was not some overwhelming majority of black people engaging in violence during those riots and I am not sure why you insinuated at such. The demographics of the people rioting were generally about the same as the demographics of relevant location of where the events. As should be expected.

Additionally, the demographics of the more serious revolutionary/anarchist (and sometimes called antifa) type groups tend to be overwhelmingly white.

The more peaceful protest groups that are focused on police reformed tend toward being full of people of color and aren't focused on overthrowing the government and implementing socialism/anarchism/whatever like the revolutionary groups are.

> I've been whatabouticized

I am not sure why you think a stupid fallacy is justified just because there is some other person in the world engaging in the same stupid fallacy.

You have ironically just engaged in the same whataboutism again. In order to justify you engaging in whataboutism, you have once again appealed to "well some other person did it to me!". Team sports once again.

If I were writing a joke about politics and fallacies in which I made fun of this behavior of justifying whataboutisms with a literal whataboutism, it wouldn't even be funny because it would be too over the top and on the nose.

	▲	Smeevy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I've just been called racist and accused of engaging in whataboutism AND tribalism by a Republican online. That's a bingo, everybody!