This is interesting - I love a good Hume reference - but wholly and entirely unpersuasivehttps://nonzero.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-whataboutism?utm_source=url&s=r …
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yes, but it mattered that such actions also advanced commercial interests to a great degree (i.e. the notion that moral consistency rather than realpolitik motivated the decision isn't entirely wrong but a bit thin)
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That's not really relevant to the question of argumentative form and intent? The Soviets did this in plenty of contexts that weren't civil rights too
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Intent is less important I think than whether arguments were accurate and worth attending to.
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This is where that terrifying CRT that we all keep hearing about comes in so handy. It's what Derek Bell calls "interest convergence," and it's very far from the only such example of progress happening under such conditions.
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