📚 noun • entry_id 59248
whataboutism
/ˌwə.təˈbaʊ.tɪ.zəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
falacia de «y qué hay de» • y tú más • yquehaydeísmo
A logical fallacy where criticisms are deflected by raising unrelated criticisms of the opposite side.
And I'd no time at all for 'What aboutism' - you know, people who said 'Yes, but what about what's been done to us? ... That had nothing to do with it, and if you got into it you w…
Soviet propagandists during the cold war were trained in a tactic that their western interlocutors nicknamed 'whataboutism'.
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