Whataboutism

The punishment is the same.

Whataboutism with racism." Well, this person is generally right, and I didn't defend the response.

I'm just ...

But it might actually help a little bit if the person is otherwise a really good employee to say, "Look, I'm sorry.

And my friends on the left said, well, what about Ben-Gvir? I said, well, we're never going to get out of this problem if we justify our own leaders' excesses by looking at the radicals on the other side.

Yeah, whataboutism.

Whataboutism is just, it's intellectually sloppy and it's unhelpful.

And then you go down the list of Yair Golan.

First of all, he has one or two truly honorable people.

Bean soup.

Whataboutism.

Before chucking trauma out there, I had a sister.

So...

Yeah.

I mean, people say, oh my God, what is it? Whataboutism? That's just an excuse.

No, it isn't.

It's saying that the worst has to come first.

And so if you're going to complain about genocide, Look at Sudan, look at the Uighurs, look at what's happening in other parts of the world.

Don't focus only on the Jewish state first.

Whataboutism is an essential element of a single standard, and so I will continue to ask the question, what about when people make criticism? You can criticize America, you can criticize Israel, you can criticize Canada, criticize any country, but when you single them out for invidious discrimination, when others are much worse, then you have to answer the question, well, what about these other countries? So I'm going to continue to ask that question.

One of the book's essays is titled, Why I Am Proud to Call Myself an American Zionist.