The only way that could be a purer distillation of abstract whataboutism would be to remove the last lingering traces of specificity, yielding: "[They] do [it] too!"
Even if we accept that that other-bad-thing exists, how does it justify the first-bad-thing we were talking about?
The only way that could be a purer distillation of abstract whataboutism would be to remove the last lingering traces of specificity, yielding: "[They] do [it] too!"
Even if we accept that that other-bad-thing exists, how does it justify the first-bad-thing we were talking about?