• Allero@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    “Whataboutism” is a term used to feel righteous while completely ignoring your bias.

    Admitting both contries are bad and then taking a clear stance between them is hypocritical at best.

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      3 hours ago

      “Whataboutism” is when you dismiss any bad of any one thing because there are other examples of bad things. In fact, you trying to deflect your bias as my bias is actually also whataboutism.

      If you don’t have any logical excuse for the bad thing, then you should stop standing up for the bad thing.

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        19 minutes ago

        Sure, but here it’s pretty much about the trade war between the two.

        Neither side is just, and so seeing it as “China bad” is not a neutral outlook.

        In the US-centric environment, standing up for neutrality is easy to confuse with standing up for China.