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By the way, 'whataboutism' (originating as 'whataboutery') was literally invented by a British loyalist columnist Sean O'Conaill in the 70s who was whining about Irish Republicans' accurate criticism of British atrocities in Northern Ireland.
The so-called leftists in the west do not even realize they have are using imperialist propaganda whenever they mention whataboutism.
leftism in the west seems to be at such a degraded state that its practitioners vary wildly in its application and i suspect that it speaks to the dearth of sounding boards for it.
not for the lack of peope trying -- the epstein class uses its authority to discredit, kill, persecute leftists on their side of the planet and the brainworms they created via things like COINTELPRO are generational enough too make an overwhelming majority of westernerss sit and do nothing about iit at best and cheer it on at worst.
And then popularised by, I believe, a Romanian zionist?
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