• DeusUmbra@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    No, pointing out hypocrisy would be going “hey, didn’t you also blatantly rip off a popular product? Isn’t it hypocritical for you to criticize them for something you also have done?” What Aboutism is defined as: “the rhetorical practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation, by asking a different but related question, or by raising a different issue altogether. Whataboutism often serves to reduce the perceived plausibility or seriousness of the original accusation or question by suggesting that the person advancing it is hypocritical or that the responder’s misbehavior is not unique or unprecedented.” https://www.britannica.com/topic/whataboutism

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      8 days ago

      And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.

      Arf arf arf

      • DeusUmbra@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Is this some kind of Russian proverb I’m too human to understand?

        Also, you are very bad at this, it’s blatantly obvious that you have no response to my points, so you just keep trying to deflect and redirect the conversation. So, why don’t we just call it here as a loss for Chinese Apologists?

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          7 days ago

          It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.

          Do you not consider Russians human?

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            7 days ago

            I gave you the definition of the word, and you have issues with how it is defined, and blame Me saying that I am deciding what is and is not related? Pathetic.

            Also, no. They are Orcs, plain and simple. If you have a problem with that, go tell that to Ukraine, see how they feel about it.

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                7 days ago

                Kinda hard to dehumanize a people who reject their own humanity at every turn. Listen to how they talk about Ukrainians and what the Russian army is doing to them, the orcs love it. It’s like trying to dehumanize the IDF, they do it on their own.

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                  7 days ago

                  Listen to how they talk about Ukrainians

                  Oh, they wouldn’t happen to be calling them orks now, would they? That would be terrible.

                  Judging an ethnic group by their non-democratic government is prejudice, you are prejudiced. Now please continue to justify your racism like everyone else before you.

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                    7 days ago

                    When you hear someone say “It’s not happening, but if it is, they deserve it” in response to being told about the bombings, the rapes, the kidnapping of children, you start to realize that you aren’t listening to the words of a human.