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His reply was not whataboutism; it was a legitimate and direct retort to your post that exposes that what you asserted was false.
You can literally replace the first four words in their sentence with “What about when”.
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I see, so from this reply I gather that your parent post was not “just an expression” as you claimed elsewhere, and you just got snippy when someone pushed back against your obviously out-of-touch assertion of fact.
As stated elsewhere, “good ol’ days” is an idiom. That was the expression. The point I was making was independent of the idiom/expression.
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You can literally replace the first four words in their sentence with “What about when”.
That’s not what whataboutism is; it requires the “what about when” to be followed by a change of topic, to distract the other party from the original topic.
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That’s not what whataboutism is; it requires the “what about when” to be followed by a change of topic, to distract the other party from the original topic.
Like when I made a comment on general etiquette and someone else shifted the conversation to one of the worst moments of the civil rights movement?
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Goddamn, I wish I could block users on HN.
Just some intellectual sparring mate, no ill will intended.
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Just some intellectual sparring mate, no ill will intended.
Do you honestly think that falsely calling out an (informal) fallacy counts as “intellectual sparring,” whatever the fuck that is? What is wrong with you?
My mother denied me the teat.
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The dude was a badass, 6 time undefeated karate world champion (!!!), created his own variant of karate mixed with korean martial arts, was a good friend with Bruce Lee and that scene in Colloseum - probably the coolest thing I saw as a kid growing up behind iron curtain... not many actors can have such a resume on top of their acting career. Those who cared would/will know him regardless. But obviously those people…
"World champion" is an embellishment, but he was a strong point fighter within North America. His six championships were for a tournament that crowned self-titled "Professional [weight class] Karate Champions", with the "World" embellishment added later. To be fair, people from other countries did occasionally appear at these tournaments, but there weren't Japanese fighters there, and Japan dominates the gold medal c…
Death had to take Chuck Norris sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.