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      1 year 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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          1 year ago

          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