Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 3 days agoNo, pointing out hypocrisy would be going “hey, didn’t you also blatantly rip off a popular product? Isn’t it hypocritical for you to criticize them for something you also have done?” What Aboutism is defined as: “the rhetorical practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation, by asking a different but related question, or by raising a different issue altogether. Whataboutism often serves to reduce the perceived plausibility or seriousness of the original accusation or question by suggesting that the person advancing it is hypocritical or that the responder’s misbehavior is not unique or unprecedented.” www.britannica.com/topic/whataboutism
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 days ago
And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.
Arf arf arf
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 2 days ago
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 days ago
It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.
Do you not consider Russians human?
DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 2 days ago