Source: Antiwar.com
by Joseph D Terwilliger
“Try this sometime: say that NATO bombed civilians in Serbia, and Russia did the same in Ukraine. Don’t take a side, don’t justify it – just note the symmetry and watch the room explode. You’ll be accused of whataboutism, as though you’d just farted in church during a eulogy. Push further, and the full litany of elite scolding will follow: bothsidesism, false equivalency, moral relativism, denial of context. These aren’t arguments. They’re narrative firewalls, deployed to keep anyone from checking the math. But here’s the kicker: whataboutism, properly used, isn’t a deflection. It’s a diagnostic tool.” (05/26/25)