whatabouteries

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A form of whataboutery — Protesting at hypocrisy; responding to criticism by accusing one's opponent of similar or worse faults.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of whataboutery

    Instead, such a meeting will normally have the three elements of maths, myths and `whatabouteries.'

    1998 June 1, Jim Aughney, “Sacred cows will not survive brave new tax world”, in Irish Independent
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