{"id":371,"date":"2020-11-28T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T19:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-11-28T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T19:28:59","slug":"whataboutism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/2020\/11\/28\/whataboutism\/","title":{"rendered":"Whataboutism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Whataboutism<\/strong>, also known as&nbsp;<strong>whataboutery<\/strong>, is\na variant of the&nbsp;<em>tu quoque<\/em>&nbsp;logical fallacy&nbsp;that attempts\nto discredit an opponent&#8217;s position by charging them with&nbsp;hypocrisy&nbsp;without\ndirectly refuting or disproving their argument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whataboutism is particularly associated with&nbsp;Soviet&nbsp;and&nbsp;Russian propaganda.&nbsp;When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union during the&nbsp;Cold War, the Soviet response would often be &#8220;What about &#8230;&#8221; followed by an event in the&nbsp;Western world. According to Russian writer and political activist&nbsp;Garry Kasparov, it is a word that was coined to describe the frequent use of a rhetorical diversion by Soviet apologists and dictators, who would counter charges of their oppression, &#8220;massacres,&nbsp;gulags, and forced deportations&#8221; by invoking American&nbsp;slavery,&nbsp;racism,&nbsp;lynchings, etc.&nbsp;Whataboutism has been adopted by other politicians and countries and has become a signature of the&nbsp;Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whataboutism, also known as&nbsp;whataboutery, is a variant of the&nbsp;tu quoque&nbsp;logical fallacy&nbsp;that attempts to discredit an opponent&#8217;s position by charging them with&nbsp;hypocrisy&nbsp;without directly refuting or disproving their argument. Whataboutism is particularly associated with&nbsp;Soviet&nbsp;and&nbsp;Russian propaganda.&nbsp;When criticisms were<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-buttons\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/2020\/11\/28\/whataboutism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}