Re:Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider...
by pritambaral on Sunday April 19, 2020 @08:01AM
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> ... when today there are people ...
This sounds a lot like whataboutism.
> The framing of your question has no good answer like the classic “are you still beating your wife?”
I don't agree your analogy holds.
1. That famous question was rhetorical, this one isn't;
2. That was a riposte to a grand claim that questions can be answered with a simple "yes" or "no" and no explanation whatsoever, the "framing" of this one — i.e., the expanded text after the headline — clearly asks for explained responses and not a simple "yes" or "no".
This sounds a lot like whataboutism.
> The framing of your question has no good answer like the classic “are you still beating your wife?”
I don't agree your analogy holds.
1. That famous question was rhetorical, this one isn't;
2. That was a riposte to a grand claim that questions can be answered with a simple "yes" or "no" and no explanation whatsoever, the "framing" of this one — i.e., the expanded text after the headline — clearly asks for explained responses and not a simple "yes" or "no".