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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (68711)	4/27/2018 3:44:40 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364744

I suspect Mueller will figure out what happened.

To: TimF who wrote (68711)	4/27/2018 5:41:32 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364744

Ah yes. Whataboutism. The irony of you using this to defend the NRA and its Russian associations is, well... Whataboutism (also known as Whataboutery) is a form of defensive propaganda used to counter criticism (usually from "the West", and usually on blatant human rights abuses) with a "What about...?"—question vaguely, if at all, related to the original issue. It is a specialized red herring version of the tu quoque fallacy, sometimes implementing the balance fallacy as well. An old favorite of Communists (especially tankies), [1] the strategy originates from the Soviet era, and was usually used in the form of "And at your place, they hang black people". [2] Simply put, whataboutism refers to the bringing up of one issue in order to distract from the discussion of another. It does not apply to the comparison and analysis of two similar issues in terms such as why some are given more social prominence than others.