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Whataboutism started as a way to point out hypocrisy used to evade responsibility by pointing out some other unrelated moral wrong. It is now used by libs to evade responsibility by denying a related moral wrong. Impressive sleight of hand
Whataboutism started as a way to silence supporters of the IRA when they pointed out the British did worse stuff.
Whataboutism is often used as an argument to fight typical Western hypocrisy and moral relativism. They often go about hey county/political party X did something they consider bad, but when you point out the historical context and imperialist ramifications, they claim this is whataboutism.
An example, lack of freedom of expression is bad in China, but when you point out their moral relativism when give examples of people who suffer serious consequences when they manifest themselves in Western empire countries, they start the whataboutism rant.