• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      No, it isn’t. Whataboutism is pointing to a different wrong as a way to dismiss a currently discussed wrong. This is using someone’s past actions as a reason they shouldn’t be trusted in their current statement. It’s a legitimate attack on the speaker’s ethos.

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      This is not a whataboutism, this is calling someone out, and their party out, for their hypocrisy.

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        but it functions as a whataboutism. it doesn’t address the original concerns of the statement. instead it uses an ad hominem attach to discredit the argument

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          it doesn’t address the original concerns of the statement

          Yes, it does. The statements concerns were bullshit fakery, as proven by the points given.