What about Whataboutery?
To highlight what the other side has done is one of the commonest forms of evasion of personal moral responsibility"
-- Cardinal Cahal Daly
In my previous article for the Majority, I spoke about how nationalism and nationalists rely on paradoxes to both validate their own opinions and dismiss the facts of others. It is time, therefore, to dissect and discredit their preferred technique, "whataboutery", or the Scottish version, "whitabootery".
Simply put, whataboutery serves two functions, firstly to try to put the person who asks the question on the defensive, and secondly to allow the person using whataboutery to deflect away and avoid answering the question asked.
