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Biden regrets using ‘illegal’ to describe Laken Riley’s accused migrant killer, fails to apologize butchering late student’s name (www.msn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Kaboom@reddthat.com to c/conservative@lemm.ee

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He cant even call illegals illegal without saying sorry, and he doesnt care to know her name. What a fucked up man.

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[+] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Classic progressive whataboutism

Relevance?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Relevance?

I believe they're calling into question the standards that Republican supporters hold politicians to. If these statements by Biden are deplorable than why aren't similar statements by Republican politicians treated the same way? They're not saying Trump says bad things too, which would be irrelevant, they're saying Trump said similar things, so shouldn't those things be bad?

If one argues a politician must always pronounce someone's name right, shouldn't one dislike Trump making up names for everyone?

[–] S_204@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

This.

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It mostly only counts as a whataboutism if the entity being compared to is not relevant in the conversation, but as the election moves closer to a Biden-Trump situation, I think the comparisons to Trump (as opposed to criticisms of Biden on their own) can no longer be said to be irrelevant.