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Re:BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm ... by shstalwart on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:03AM (#19642370)
Is whataboutism the modern incarnation of ad hominem?

Personally, I would classify these objections about Balsillie's arguments as ad hominem attacks. If the point he makes is logically coherent, what does his personal motivation it matter?

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Re:BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm ... by caprese on Saturday April 13, 2019 @04:52AM (#19651854)
Whataboutism is an ad hominem fallacy when the context is US-Russia geopolitical relations. Traditionally it has been used to successfully ignore accurate observations about US/Russia, when the messenger is Russian/US respectively.

Here the concept has been extended to large multinational corporate relations.

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