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gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 4 days ago1.it’s a euphemism for “And You Are Lynching Negroes” - that’s literally what people used to say instead of whataboutism
lol who do you think was saying this, and how is “whataboutism” in anyway of a euphemism for it? Did you even bother to read the article you linked?
sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
America dropped “you are lynching negros” in favor of “whataboutism” because it made people think for a moment, hey, why are we lynching negros after all? Aren’t we kinda hypocrites?
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 4 days ago
America didn’t drop anything because they weren’t saying it in the first place, the Soviets were. America also aren’t the ones that coined a new phrase for it, British royalists were, who probably had no knowledge of the Russian phrase. All of this was explained in the article you linked.