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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I guess what they call "whataboutism" is a mask many people wear and turns every converation into a sterile chicken fight. But instead of this thing being created and orchestrated by evil forces, I think it has more to do with people not being educated to have constructive conversations on the internet (the thing I'm trying to be here is supposed to be a sort of training to contrast that): a lot of people when they have nothing to say about a given topic feel the need to assert some kind of verbal dominance and whataboutism is one of the most used mechanism. As a wise person said, for me it's easier to believe that people carry ignorance rather than malice.