In the Fox News land, Coronavirus is alternating between a liberal media hoax whose risk was blown out of proportion and a Chinese virus whose risk was much higher than what the Chinese government led the world to believe (which apparently only the US believed). I admire your loyalty but don't you feel sometimes that they are insulting your intelligence?
Oh so true.
Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.
A corollary to the "Look! There goes Elvis!" defense.
It's been shown to be more effective even than marching in the streets sometimes. Low cost, high payoff = intelligent. And if it's neither, then why cry?
The second part of your post, my god, at least wait for a couple of pages after preaching about whataboutism to write that.
The one challenge to that model, however, is that it again tends to favor elites. People with more disposable income and typically have benefitted from an unequal system can leverage a financial vote much greater than the average schmo. But when wasn't that ever true? But compared to the politics of one vote, one person, it is skewed.
In an alternate universe, any patriotic American who truly cared for freedom would object to this:
"Many United States states are using anti-boycott laws and executive orders to punish companies that refuse to do business with illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Human Rights Watch said today. More than 250 million Americans, some 78 percent of the population, live in states with anti-boycott laws or policies."
Great example. That's government to government removing a financial voice.
South African Apartheid would have probably lived for much longer if these tactics were acted upon.
Amazon banned Tiktok.
I don't get TikTok, just as I didn't get Vine. Same diff. Same stupid.
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Intercepted! Clean play too. No flags.
I mostly agree with you on the virtue-signalling stupidity and devoid of any real meaning that is kneeling during the anthem before sporting events.
If you want to see another bizarre side of virtue signaling, there's the whole white savior thing too. Take that lameassed country band, Lady Antebellum, deciding to change their name to Lady A, which a black singer has performed publicly for years. People are getting bent out of shape over two irrelevant musical acts.
But the telling part is I see lots of wypipo calling out "Antebellum" as a racist term. (It actually just means from a time before the Civil War, so Frederick Douglass' books on his slavery are Antebellum.) I don't know a single black person where this even registers as a concern. Not that words don't matter, but the whole thing smacks of white savior guilt activism over things black people really don't care about -- as they couldn't be bothered to actually ask black people what bothers them.
Oh, maybe like not having access to basic health care in the middle of a pandemic where public health policy is decimated and blacks are far more vulnerable than whites of COVID. But why lead the charge for something useful like revamping the ACA, right? Black people will instead reach the promised land through bitching about the names of lame country music acts.