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Re:On Resigning from Google by kick on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:49PM (#22270764)
2. If they think Google is discriminatory towards LGBT employees and minorities, contributing to climate change etc., they are in for a big shock once they are really out of the Google and SV bubble.

This is a particularly subversive brand of whataboutism.

"Company has participated in Bad Thing."

"Ah, but Other Company also participates in Bad Thing! Your criticism of Company is therefore invalid!"

"Company took $1,000,000,000 from Bad Industry! We should scold that behavior!"

"Ah, but Other Company took $2,000,000,000 from Bad Industry! Company therefore shouldn't be criticized!"

One action can be bad without negating the badness of another action.

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Re:On Resigning from Google by kinkrtyavimoodh on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:04PM (#22270930)
Whataboutism is one of the most ridiculous accusations thrown around willy-nilly these days. Sure, if you have no idea what happens in the world, you can arbitrarily find anything outrageous. It is trivial to create outrage in a vacuum, blind of all facts that threaten to challenge your rose-tinted world view.
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