• Jaysyn
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    -71 year ago

    Yeah, that was a whole lot of pathetic whataboutism, wasn’t it?

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      It’s not whataboutism, whatever that means. It’s an illustration that the use of ‘authoritarian/ism’ as a pejorative against one state in particular is a kind of inverse category error. The fact that a state is authoritarian is not automatically negative (except to anarchists); the term applies to every state. Hence, to use ‘authoritarian\ism’ to imply a negative is only coherent if one means to criticise the state form itself.