• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    We are talking about a stance of two presidential candidates, the context matter when talking whataboutism.

    In this case, the stance of both candidates on Israel is part of their political platform and we’re in the presidential campaign.

    Whataboutism would be Republicans defending Trump on its criminal charge by talking about Hillary’s emails. Those two things are unrelated.

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      4 months ago

      Understood. So as long as I’m talking about the same metric, I’m allowed to bring up how things were before a socialist government came to power and that’s not whataboutism.

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        4 months ago

        When Castro and Batista will be running candidates, we can ask them their stance on Israel and give them cute nicknames, but until then, we can debate the stance of Biden and Trump, the two running candidates and compare their platform.

        Is that hard to grasp?

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          4 months ago

          Not at all. I’m just trying to establish the rules governing whataboutism, because it sometimes seems to me like there’s a double standard.