Your main criticism of Biden is his age and not his unconditional support of genocide?

God you can just read what a word means before talking about it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Oh so let’s pretend only eastern imperialism is bad, got you!! (Now I’m doing the whataboutism)

that meme about white imperialism is about one specific country

I’m talking about the post, which is primarily about Israel and it’s allies. Your comment was wholly unproductive

“So commenting about imperialist state under anti imperialistic meme is whataboutism?”

Sometimes. Commenting about any topic can be whataboutism if it fits the definition.

If I was saying “death to the IDF” and the comment was “what about Russian war crimes???”, ya, that would be whataboutism.

This feels like whataboutism, especially if the poster is American. I’m Canadian and I mainly criticize Canada/US/Israel, because that’s the empire I’m a citizen of.

Cracker

It’s not for me either. I did hear that he endorsed the left wing(socialist iirc) party in the last Puerto Rico election, and obviously has been very vocally anti-ICE, so I’ll take it.

I read the first paragraph and it was pretty much exactly what I said. I’m not confused by the meaning of the term, if that’s why you shared it.

I find that when people use this term I get suspicious. It could be used to describe authoritarian Stalinists, Maoists, Marxist-Leninists, or just communists/socialists in general. I wish that posters would be more specific, because everyone and their mother has a different definition of “tanky”. It often comes across as a thought-terminator. I’m not up to speed on the Lemmy beef, so I have no idea who’s right, but I’ve seen like 10 posts about tankies and none of them really defined the term, which is very frustrating.