FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max

Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh... by avereveard on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:19PM (#26378199)

which is a textbook whataboutism

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Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh... by dataflow on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:23PM (#26378239)

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whataboutism

> A conversational tactic in which a person responds to an argument or attack by changing the subject to focus on someone else’s misconduct, implying that all criticism is invalid because no one is completely blameless

> Excusing your mistakes with whataboutism is not the same as defending your record.

This was emphatically not what I was doing.

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Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh... by dotancohen on Sunday March 07, 2021 @03:30PM (#26379483)

Actually, pointing out similar actions in peers of the accused is a valid method to demonstrate that such actions are not misconduct. Or, if we still insist on calling these actions misconduct, then a double standard has been demonstrated.

That said, GGP post did not point out similar actions. Airbus did not risk passengers' lives. That is the issue here: public safety.

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Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh... by xwolfi on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:02PM (#26381004)

But ofc there s a double standard as long as Boeing kills and deflects and Airbus stays silent with no history.

Doesnt mean Boeing shouldnt restructure or disappear.

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Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh... by avereveard on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:07PM (#26378718)

> by changing the subject to focus on someone else’s misconduct

and how is highlighting airbus misconduct not a textbook example of this?

you even linked the explanation sentence, but did you read it?

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Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh... by dataflow on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:19PM (#26378827)

If you read the entirety of what I wrote in all my comments here it should be fairly obvious how. You seem very keen to start a fight though, and I'm not sure I'm up for a match here, so I'll leave it at this.

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Re:FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversigh... by Judgmentality on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:39PM (#26378399)

As the other commenter pointed out, whataboutism would imply defense of Boeing.

I think we disagree on what whataboutism means. I think we're just gonna have to agree to disagree, because we're having a meta argument at this point.

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