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dang on March 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Life on the wrong side of China’s social credit sy...

Please keep the "whataboutism" trope off HN. It's a tired cliché that's only used to delegitimize discussion.

Your comment would be just fine without the last sentence.

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thatoneuser on March 26, 2019 [–]

True. Can't stand when people use that against me, so even if it fits I dislike the term. It's so common in ad hominem fallacy.

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