> You keep using that word but I don’t think you understand what it means.
I understand exactly what it means. You might not given how strenuous and unsuccessfully you've been trying to defend yourself against the accusation.
From Wikipedia: "Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about ...?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation. "
An example would be a British patriot attempting to defend the UK against claims of government overreach and potential thought crime policing by bringing up US cops shooting unarmed black men.
> What you’re doing is saying comparisons don’t matter because your argument only works if you look at it from a shallow view point.
No, I'm saying you should defend against the claims made instead of deflecting.
> And then you have the audacity to say everyone else is acting in bad faith apart from yourself.
Only the people I think are engaging in bad faith, although I don't really think that about the other user, and think that far more intensely of you at the moment.
> Exactly. US police has the same powers and arrests people for the same things but those laws are named differently.
This has to be a deliberation misinterpretation, no other explanation.
The laws are not named differently in the US, they are named differently in the UK as well. Laws about organizing riots are not hate speech laws in the UK or the US. Your comparison was nonsense.
> So what you’re banging on about is a misconception based purely on the naming of things.
Not at all. You've completely lost track of what you're talking about and don't appear to understand the differences between the US and UK whatsoever, you're reaching and thus your bizarre attempt to justify a whataboutism by claiming cultural differences to someone who has a better cultural overview of both countries than you do is failing in a rather embarrassing fashion.
I'll remind you you said you were done several posts ago and refused to provide sources when asked because you were 'done' and/or it was too much work, yet you continue to put in more effort in your replies. It brings the credibility of your position into question for any objective readers.
You said you were done. Just be done. Walk away. Get on with your day, go enjoy a nice cup of tea. Let's just agree to disagree, eh?
I understand exactly what it means. You might not given how strenuous and unsuccessfully you've been trying to defend yourself against the accusation.
From Wikipedia: "Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about ...?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation. "
An example would be a British patriot attempting to defend the UK against claims of government overreach and potential thought crime policing by bringing up US cops shooting unarmed black men.
> What you’re doing is saying comparisons don’t matter because your argument only works if you look at it from a shallow view point.
No, I'm saying you should defend against the claims made instead of deflecting.
> And then you have the audacity to say everyone else is acting in bad faith apart from yourself.
Only the people I think are engaging in bad faith, although I don't really think that about the other user, and think that far more intensely of you at the moment.
> Exactly. US police has the same powers and arrests people for the same things but those laws are named differently.
This has to be a deliberation misinterpretation, no other explanation.
The laws are not named differently in the US, they are named differently in the UK as well. Laws about organizing riots are not hate speech laws in the UK or the US. Your comparison was nonsense.
> So what you’re banging on about is a misconception based purely on the naming of things.
Not at all. You've completely lost track of what you're talking about and don't appear to understand the differences between the US and UK whatsoever, you're reaching and thus your bizarre attempt to justify a whataboutism by claiming cultural differences to someone who has a better cultural overview of both countries than you do is failing in a rather embarrassing fashion.
I'll remind you you said you were done several posts ago and refused to provide sources when asked because you were 'done' and/or it was too much work, yet you continue to put in more effort in your replies. It brings the credibility of your position into question for any objective readers.
You said you were done. Just be done. Walk away. Get on with your day, go enjoy a nice cup of tea. Let's just agree to disagree, eh?