Steve King: How did white supremacist become offensive?

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(02-18-2019, 04:56 PM)fredtoast Wrote: To me "whataboutism" is simply pointing out the other side doing the exact same thing.  Pretty much people on both sides agree that it is bad when  a politician cheats on his wife or takes bribes even if he is on "their side".

But in this case it is a little different.  In order to define Oman as an anti-Semite first it has to be proven that her comments are clearly anti-Semitic with no other possible meaning.  So pointing out that the other side has done the exact same thing in this case is not about saying both sides are anti-Semitic.  Instead it is about proving that her comments were not anti-Semitic in the first place.

Since no one has condemned the comments of these Republicans as being anti-Semitic then that proves that Oman's comments were not anti-Semitic either.

(02-18-2019, 05:07 PM)Dill Wrote: Quick way to establish that--explain how to make a point about comparative magnitude without comparison.

Hard to do if you can only offer impressions. 

Here's where you both fail.  If we were only having this discussion because of Omar's most recent tweet you'd both have a solid point.  Unfortunately, for you both, this is not the case.  When you have this tweet in your history;



your future tweets on this subject will be judged based on this history.  Now, if anyone else you're using to compare Omar's latest tweet to has a similar, obviously antisemitic, tweet in their history then feel free to compare away.  If they don't then prepare yourself to be, correctly, accused of whataboutery.