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gravityeyelids) wrote2018-08-11 04:38 pm
gravityeyelids) wrote2018-08-11 04:38 pm
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pressurepride: sirfrogsworth: “But Obama did a
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pressurepride:
sirfrogsworth:
“But Obama did a bad thing too!”
Agreed.
Now that I’ve acknowledged that, can we please stop the bad thing currently happening that doesn’t require a time machine to fix?
that’s an old soviet propaganda technique called whataboutism. it implies that all actions share a moral equivalency and since no one is perfect, standards are unnecessary
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pressurepride:
sirfrogsworth:
“But Obama did a bad thing too!”
Agreed.
Now that I’ve acknowledged that, can we please stop the bad thing currently happening that doesn’t require a time machine to fix?
that’s an old soviet propaganda technique called whataboutism. it implies that all actions share a moral equivalency and since no one is perfect, standards are unnecessary
(Your picture was not posted)