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We have now fallen into a bizarre and terrible cycle in the United States in which one side does something bad and the other side then does something similarly bad and then points to the fact that the first side did something bad as an excuse for doing it. This is a problem. We used to call this whataboutism.
Now, people have misapplied the term whataboutism over and over and over in the political context. It is not whataboutism to point out double standards.
Whataboutism is when you do something wrong, and instead of you saying, yes, I did the thing wrong, but a double standard is being applied, it's when you say, I didn't do anything wrong at all, and it doesn't matter if I did do something wrong because the other side did it.
So, for example, if Hunter Biden is super duper duper corrupt and then somebody on the right side of the aisle does something super duper duper corrupt and then they're called on and they say, well, yeah, but Hunter Biden did something super corrupt. That's whataboutism because it's a non sequitur.
You can say there's a double standard being applied by the media that was willing to ignore and cover up Hunter Biden's activity for years. But now they're going after, say, Team Trump. They can say that the media have been disproportionate in their coverage of corruption. That is a fair point.
It is not a fair point to say that corruption on one side of the aisle is justified by corruption on the other side of the aisle. If you do that sort of stuff, then you end up in a bottomless spiral. That bottomless spiral gets worse and worse because everybody just reacts against the last bad thing that the other side did and justifies what they are doing now.
And then the other side comes back and says, yeah, well, you just did something even worse. And so I'm going to do something even worse than that. The reality is that calling out double standards is a good thing if you wish to uphold a standard. Calling out double standards as an excuse for doing bad things is not in fact calling out a double standard. It is just justifying doing bad things.
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