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    -111 months ago

    This is straight up, unmasked whataboutism. Yes, what you brought up also is bad.

    BUT. My comment was a direct reply to a comment suggesting the people of Palestine don’t support Hamas so I was dispelling that particular fiction.

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      -111 months ago

      This is straight up, unmasked whataboutism.

      Asking why something happened is “whataboutisim”? Cmon dude, try harder

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        Literally, yes.

        Read up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

        You can’t stay on topic. Why is that? I’ll help, it’s because you don’t want to admit I’m right and you’re grasping at anything rather than let yourself acknowledge it.

        I’ll help some more. This excerpt exactly explains what you did:

        denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation

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          -111 months ago

          but retorted with a critical counter-question

          I’m gonna have to ask you to find the question mark in my original response.