#whataboutery

[redamancy6]

The lesser evil has become the default candidate, an ancillary product of whataboutery.

[pointless-letters]

“Actually, I think John makes a very good point.” Said Gerald Bigg-Knockers, Head of Whataboutery at the University of Life, today. “These things are totally the same and this is a completely sensible hill to choose to die on. I am very intelligent.”

[triumph-of-adaptation]

“If you lost a leg,

and the person next to you lost two legs,

you’d still have lost a leg.”

- s02e04, Legion

[mzannthropy]

Well I see it didn’t take long for those “it’s ok to feel sad about Notre Dame but what about-” post to appear...

[pointless-letters]

And as sure as the sun rises and sets, as sure as fire is hot and rain is wet, in the week after Halloween there’s always at least one Pointless Letter writer angry that you can’t even black up these days without being called racist....

[stuff-by-parm]

Whataboutisms

Whataboutery is being taken to new heights, what about we give it a rest… a very long rest.

More Mo & Mo comics at disentangledweb.com 

[piecesofreiss]

“In his recent book, Contemporary Left Antisemitism, David Hirsh argued that the problem was turbo-charged by three events in 2001: the collapse of the Middle East peace process, the anti-imperialist rhetoric that followed 9/11 and the UN conference in Durban at which “Zionism” was designated a form of white racism. This set the stage for, in Hirsh’s words, “an antisemitism which positions Jews themselves as ‘oppressors’ and … those who develop hostile narratives about Jews as ‘oppressed’.” In the great discourse of left identity politics, Jews were now definitively on the wrong side of the line: powerful, white, aligned with imperialism.

According to this twisted logic, Mear One’s mural could not, axiomatically, be judged racist – any more than Ken Livingstone’s outbursts, the antisemitic content posted on social media by the Labour MP Naz Shah, or the alleged hostility to Jews at the Oxford University Labour Club. The leadership might be forced by media or political pressure to take action against such conduct. But it manifestly did so with an eye to optics rather than as a matter of principle.

Antisemitism is on the rise all over the world. According to the Community Security Trust, a record number of antisemitic incidents were reported in the UK last year. Why does this bother Corbyn as little as it seems to? Does he believe in universal rights and equality of worth, or not? The fact that the Labour leader appears to regard allegations of antisemitism as an irritant rather than a fundamental issue says nothing good about him. In this respect, at least, the writing is upon the wall.”

[mental-mona]