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0 pointsmynameisvlad3y ago0 comments

The entirety of the comment is saying:

A. It’s ok because war

B. Voice of America does it so it’s ok

That is, quite plainly, whataboutism. There is no substance in the comment beyond “others do it too so it’s ok for Russians to as well and if you think otherwise, well look at these others”

I know it’s hard for you to see whataboutism when your comeback to Yandex being censored was “In any case, the problem is that anything else is also censored.” but try harder.

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woooooo3y ago

Taxonomy is the lowest form of thought.

Either it's an outrage for MSFT to do business with warmongering countries, or it isn't. Saying we only care about Russian aggressions while ignoring our own is just jingoism.

mynameisvladOP3y ago

It’s not even remotely as black and white as you make it seem, and that still doesn’t excuse whataboutism. “Warmongering” after all is an extremely objective description that I’m sure people would not disagree on the definition of at all /s.

If anything, both should be individually evaluated. But blankly dismissing one as “it’s ok Voice of America does it too” is adding nothing to the discussion but shitty logical fallacies.

somenameforme3y ago

I read his post as, "Mainstream news outlets within countries tend to be biased towards the interests of that country." I think that's a more good faith interpretation, and leads to a sort of water is wet type observation. That said I do think he more or less self-hijacked his own post by specifically naming Voice of America which is practically begging for your claims.

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