| ▲ | LetsGetTechnicl 2 days ago |
| Suddenly I'm reminded of the decent (grown) people who yelled in six year-old Ruby Bridges' face when she was merely attending elementary school. So if that was 1960, I'm just wondering when those good ol' days you're referring to where. |
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| ▲ | crims0n 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| It is an expression, you needn’t interpret it literally. |
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| ▲ | LetsGetTechnicl 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh, okay. I guess that's a convenient excuse to not have to back up your words. | | |
| ▲ | crims0n 2 days ago | parent [-] | | This is hn not reddit, do you really expect a response to your whataboutism? | | |
| ▲ | LetsGetTechnicl 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | "Whataboutism" is just asking you to validate your claims, I guess. | | |
| ▲ | crims0n 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | You don’t need me to validate it for you, search “never discuss politics or religion in polite company” - it was a common maxim. |
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| ▲ | angoragoats 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | His reply was not whataboutism; it was a legitimate and direct retort to your post that exposes that what you asserted was false. | | |
| ▲ | crims0n 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can literally replace the first four words in their sentence with “What about when”. | | |
| ▲ | angoragoats 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s not what whataboutism is; it requires the “what about when” to be followed by a change of topic, to distract the other party from the original topic. | | |
| ▲ | crims0n 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Like when I made a comment on general etiquette and someone else shifted the conversation to one of the worst moments of the civil rights movement? | | |
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| ▲ | angoragoats 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What, exactly, was the expression in your post that was not meant to be interpreted literally? | | |
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