Whataboutism is a type of argument or rhetorical device that involves responding to an accusation or criticism by making a counter-accusation or raising a different, often unrelated, issue.
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But if you have enough solid facts, and can prove it with third party sources, you might be able to overwhelm some of the bias sensory in the person
using whataboutism.
Dealing
with whataboutism does get frustrating as someone who wants to help people with their money.
All I can do is highlight that this is an issue, show clear examples of it, and encourage you to not fall into a the financial
whataboutism trap.
With this post, I'll be able to recognize these types of arguments
as whataboutisms to avoid being fooled.
You might be wondering
how whataboutism can even creep into the financial discourse in America?
In my initial conversation with the reader, he was filled with
whataboutism responses he got from that advisor.
Our politicians and all the pundits on TV have regularly been
using whataboutism to minimize various political issues.
Arguing from moral inconsistency to moral wrongness is just a species of «
whataboutism.»
It's kinda lame to refuse to consider things in context, or accuse people of things like «
whataboutism» because you don't like the topic.
@Tlen And I am tired about
your whataboutism.
He realized he'd been falling for
a whataboutism argument the whole time.
But what's scarier is, beyond politics, I've been seeing «
whataboutism» creep into personal finance.
Careful for falling for a «
whataboutism» argument — you need to assess every situation independently.
On a low level, financial
whataboutism is a more egregious version of the old «Keeping Up With The Jonses» mentality.
My first thought of a «
whataboutism» is the classic «What about the children?!?» meme that I think was popularized by South Park.
Investors making excuses in a sort of financial
whataboutism are costing themselves a lot of money in fees, commissions, and returns — simply because they don't want to admit they are wrong and try something different.
Investors making excuses in a sort of financial
whataboutism are costing themselves a lot of money in fees, commissions, and returns - simply because they don't want to admit they are wrong and try something different.
This also comes close to the category of financial
whataboutism that we talked about before.
If an article is doing «
whataboutism» that minimizes the danger of big tech, check their resume, it's probably their job.
22 March 2018 Attempts at «
whataboutism» with a scandal involving social media and psychographics fail to acknowledge that Cambridge Analytica obtained data by misleading people.