marathon@thelemmy.club to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoRussia releases archives exposing Latvian Waffen-SS atrocities in WWIIwww.rt.comexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down122file-text
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minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 hours agoThis is what liberals describe as “whataboutism”.
minus-squarefalx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 hours agoHow so? It’s the same subject, Russia. The same object, fascist ideology. On one side they condemn it, on the other they prop it up. Had I said a different subject or object, I would have agreed. But here I need you to help me out, I don’t see whataboutsim.
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoNo. The subject is the Latvian SS.
This is what liberals describe as “whataboutism”.
How so? It’s the same subject, Russia. The same object, fascist ideology. On one side they condemn it, on the other they prop it up.
Had I said a different subject or object, I would have agreed. But here I need you to help me out, I don’t see whataboutsim.
No. The subject is the Latvian SS.