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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @Travisorama

      Can you answer his question?

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @owenrumney @Travisorama

      I can. So could a tiny bit of googling.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Petrel‏ @burevestnik3 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @owenrumney @Travisorama

      Petrel Retweeted Petrel

      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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      Petrel @burevestnik3
      Replying to @emptywheel
      We should oppose it whenever it happens, regardless of who does it. But, of course, we should support the right to hand out leaflets. Hence, Gessen's comparison is ridiculous.
      4 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @burevestnik3 @owenrumney @Travisorama

      Have you ever considered how those who use the term whataboutism unconsciously situate themselves in the Jim Crow era and mindset from which it stems?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HumorlessKev @owenrumney @Travisorama

      That's not actually what I said. I said the people who use it don't reflect on how the term derives from a normalization of Jim Crow.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HumorlessKev @owenrumney @Travisorama

      And you have been using racially charged language unthinkingly, and are too embarrassed to think it through now.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    7.  🌊  🗽the "TRUMP IS A TRAITOR"Conster  🗽 🏄 🍩‏ @ConnieBallou 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HumorlessKev @emptywheel and

      Whataboutism is from Jim Crow? WTF

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @ConnieBallou @HumorlessKev and

      Nooooo. The US dismissal of what we call Soviet whataboutism was racist, because it dismissed the import of lynchings and similar.

      11:53 AM - 28 Nov 2017
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        1. Petrel‏ @burevestnik3 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @ConnieBallou and

          You're fabricating a meaning of the term that never existed. Luckily nobody here is buying it.

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        1.  🌊  🗽the "TRUMP IS A TRAITOR"Conster  🗽 🏄 🍩‏ @ConnieBallou 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @HumorlessKev and

          it's a logical fallacy - tu quoque - and is used to deflect from responding to a legitimate query, which is what happened up above, then you ran off the rails into accusing someone who is also interested in a legitimate answer of being racially insensitive. WTF.

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