View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
David
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: the edge of the deep green sea
|
Post subject: Let's talk about 'whataboutery' | |
|
This is a great article. Something to keep in mind in debates here, undoubtedly:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/26/activists-dying-cat-paris-beirut-whataboutery
Quote: | Across social media, dying cats abound. There are legions of Twitterers whose sole contribution to abortion rights activism is piously demanding that the phrase “pregnant women” is replaced with “pregnant people”. The Paris attacks provided an opportunity for several moribund moggies to be thrown on the table of public discourse. “Why doesn’t anyone care about the bombing in Beirut?” wondered people whose previous thoughts on Beirut had been confined to the band. (The journalist Jamiles Lartey called these people “tragedy hipsters”, as in “Bro – I care about suffering and death that you’ve never even heard of.”) Mysteriously, the later massacre in Mali, the ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic, and Tuesday’s explosion on a bus in Tunisia did not rouse the Beirutists to fire up the Hashtagmobile. |
_________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
|
|
|
|
Tannin
Can't remember
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
|
Post subject: | |
|
Whatabout we talk about something (a) interesting, and (b) relevant to anything worth mentioning. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
|
|
|
|
Mountains Magpie
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Somewhere between now and then
|
Post subject: | |
|
I'm happy to issue a blanket condemnation on everything, including the aforesaid blankets.........
MM _________________ Spiral progress, unstoppable,
exhausted sources replaced by perversion |
|
|
|
|
stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
|
Post subject: | |
|
Well David, as the VPT king of 'whataboutary', I hope you do keep it in mind. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
|
|
|
|
David
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: the edge of the deep green sea
|
Post subject: | |
|
I'm innocent! _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
|
|
|
|
|