“Whataboutism”
A term popularized by the US Government. Used as a lame defense attempt when confronted with their own massive hypocrisy while they attacks others for doing the exact thing they also do ... in spades.
A nonsense concept of magical thinking.
Actually, all sorts of scum who try to fake moral equivalency do it.
Mainly liberals.
Iran commits crimes and then screams about supposed persecution of blacks in the USA.
Russia is pathetic and corrupt and whines about similar garbage in the Ukraine.
It can all be true (or fake), but has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
It’s very common distractive argument to those who try to defend the indefensible.
Again, I am no fan of the Ukraine. Clearly rotten to the core.
But Russia invaded for no reason.
The fact that Democrats take advantage of the wrongful attack is no different than them taking advantage of anything.
It was still unprovoked aggression.
You should read the wiki on “whatsboutism”
FTA:
Edward Lucas’s 2008 Economist article states that “Soviet propagandists during the cold war were trained in a tactic that their western interlocutors nicknamed ‘whataboutism’. Any criticism of the Soviet Union (Afghanistan, martial law in Poland, imprisonment of dissidents, censorship) was met with a ‘What about...’ (apartheid South Africa, jailed trade-unionists, the Contras in Nicaragua, and so forth).” Lucas recommended two methods of properly countering whataboutism: to “use points made by Russian leaders themselves” so that they cannot be applied to the West, and for Western nations to engage in more self-criticism of their own media and government.
You guys really need to get a new handbook.