I just googled "Assad, FBI informant" (the only details you gave us) & nothing comes up. But in any case, I'd already answered your whataboutist question in another thread:https://twitter.com/bernielosev/status/935537485777477632 …
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So, yes, by using it, you are adopting the viewpoint that lynching black people was not a political act.
No. You do realize there's a ton of language Americans use all the time w/o realizing the racist subtext out of which the language arises?
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whataboutism is not an example of this
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You're right. When Russians raised lynchings to dismiss US criticism and Americans blew that off bc lynchings were acceptable that wasn't racist at all.
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That doesn't mean that every invocation of this concept is inherently racist. What are you trying to pull here?
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I'm trying to get people to realize that the historic evolution of the term involves white people being perfectly okay with lynching.
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It's also worth considering that if we had actually SOLVED the race problem the Soviet Russians harped on, we wouldn't have Trump.
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Ok, so let's call it something else: Deliberate deflection. You're using it right now to deflect from the FBI Assad story.
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