Word: Whataboutism

[Wilson Gray]

It's quite a useful word. I use it every chance that I get, spelling it as
"whatabout-ism."

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:59 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Apologies. The mailing-list gateway software broke the links pointing
> into the ADS archive. So here are shortened versions of the links that
> may work.
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> Here is a link to the start of the ADS thread in the archive:
> http://bit.ly/WSYsdH
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> Here is a link to Hugo's message:
> http://bit.ly/1nLb5Pf
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> Here is a link to the old message about the 1994 match:
> http://bit.ly/1qESN72
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> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:42 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Barry Popik created a valuable entry for "Whataboutism" recently. So I
> > decided to revisit the topic which was discussed in a thread I
> > initiated on the ADS mailing list in February 2014. Here is a link to
> > Barry's entry:
> >
> > Whataboutism (Entry from September 05, 2014)
> > http://bit.ly/1wfRjjQ
> > http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/whataboutism/
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