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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the soviets played that propaganda game because they believed it worked to their own interests if you're going to take a consequentialist approach consider that
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Right, and what do you think was the more effective response to those arguments: dismissing them as propaganda or acknowledging truth of them and trying to repair the acknowledged problem?
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But a lot of the problem with whataboutism is that it's not a substantive critique of why X is bad, but a reference to X in a conversation about Y. It derails the debate rather than advancing it — the geopolitical equivalent of "not all men"
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