I'm often accused of whataboutary on twitter when I counter Western propaganda when showing its hypocrisy. People say to me they were talking about China, not the US, or the UK. The idea of Whataboutary was started by the Western established to deflect criticism of its own crimes.
Freedom House, a Washington-based think tank funded almost entirely by the US government, published a report last week designating 64 of the world’s 210 countries or territories as “not free”.
More than half of them are ruled by regimes supported to varying degrees by the United Kingdom, Declassified has found.
Britain sells arms, provides security training or has troops deployed to at least 36 of the countries listed as “not free”, comprising 56% of the total.
The regimes range from absolute monarchies to those run by authoritarian leaders who hold unfair elections or subject territories to military occupation.
The findings undermine the British government’s constant claim to be a “force for good” in the world.
Britain backs most of the world’s repressive regimes, new analysis shows
“ Whataboutary was started by the Western established”
ReplyDeleteMight have been started by non hypocrites... so most of you guys wouldn’t understand it or would attribute it to a conspiracy theory like Kevin here...
China and Russia have decided to do some 'what about' deflection. When the level of 'debate' gets this low, is best to stop listening.
ReplyDeleteWell it’s the figurative analogy pointing out hypocrisy... so if you’re first a non hypocrite then you might use “what about” analogy to point out the hypocrisy... I don’t see the problem seems like normal cognitive bias...
ReplyDeleteThe problem is no one cleans up their own mess.
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