it’s really not whataboutism, at the end of the day, far more life has been lost in and over russian/urkraine, than has been lost in palestine from israel.
You can’t call everything whataboutism, because then we would have no moral framework whatsoever. If everything had to be dealt with in isolation the law would be a mess. Thankfully it’s not, because it’s not dealt with in isolation. It’s dealt with at a broader social context.
Arguably this isn’t even whataboutism, because whataboutism is a deflection tactic used to focus on other issues entirely, of which i am not doing at all.
And to be pedantically specific, true whataboutism here would be you guys saying “israel is genociding palestine” and then me responding with “yeah and so is hamas, they’ve stated as such” that would be REAL whataboutism.
But in this case i’m merely referencing another conflict in a similar time span, in a similar area. To gauge consistency and general thoughts on the matter. Of which there seem to be none, i’ve never seen anybody in IP talk about this conflict, so that’s interesting. Doesn’t really mean much other than these people only want to talk about IP and only seem to know things about IP.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
it’s really not whataboutism, at the end of the day, far more life has been lost in and over russian/urkraine, than has been lost in palestine from israel.
You can’t call everything whataboutism, because then we would have no moral framework whatsoever. If everything had to be dealt with in isolation the law would be a mess. Thankfully it’s not, because it’s not dealt with in isolation. It’s dealt with at a broader social context.
Arguably this isn’t even whataboutism, because whataboutism is a deflection tactic used to focus on other issues entirely, of which i am not doing at all.
And to be pedantically specific, true whataboutism here would be you guys saying “israel is genociding palestine” and then me responding with “yeah and so is hamas, they’ve stated as such” that would be REAL whataboutism.
But in this case i’m merely referencing another conflict in a similar time span, in a similar area. To gauge consistency and general thoughts on the matter. Of which there seem to be none, i’ve never seen anybody in IP talk about this conflict, so that’s interesting. Doesn’t really mean much other than these people only want to talk about IP and only seem to know things about IP.