• hark@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    People have their own red lines and while they may seem conflicting or hypocritical, they are their own. Bringing up one separate thing in response to another is whataboutism, plain and simple. That was my point with my initial response. All that bringing up Uighurs did was divert the discussion towards other things, which is the point of whataboutism.

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      11 months ago

      Sure, my point is just that they aren’t following their stated red line. It isn’t whataboutism to challenge someone on a seeming exception to their belief.

      They made an absolutist statement about genocide. I asked about a specific case to see if their belief actually was absolutist. I did not divert the topic by asking if that goes for all genocides. They diverted it by saying it doesn’t.