10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHATABOUTERY»
Discover the use of
whataboutery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
whataboutery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bear in Mind These Dead
Over the long killing years, attempts to suggest that the conflict was more
complicated, by reference to parties other than the IRA who were engaged in
violence, were seen as 'whataboutery'. The practice of 'whataboutery' – deflecting
attention ...
2
Truth, Denial and Transition: Northern Ireland and the ...
... largely 'state-centric' cases is also important and one of the central arguments
for establishing a formal overarching truth process (Bell. Victimhood, hierarchies
and truth as 'whataboutery' Truth, trust and (re-)writing the past 'It is ultimately a.
3
States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering
Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'.
4
New Directions in Criminological Theory
... get from the liberal-left's 'evidence based policy research' is simply an
expanding list of objective external conditions – relative poverty,
disenfranchisement, state brutality and so on – in a grand proliferation of
atheoretical 'whataboutery' that ...
Steve Hall, Simon Winlow, 2012
5
Socio-Ideological Fantasy and the Northern Ireland Conflict: ...
Sinead, unlike the wider community, which O Connor believes prefers to indulge
in selective memory and 'whataboutery', questions herself. However, the problem
with his interpretation is that this is a rational approach to a conflict that is not ...
6
The Long War: The IRA and Sinn Féin
373 Warrenpoint bomb, 55, 205 Warrington bomb, 30, 62-3 Washington Tests',
348-51, 353, 356 weapons, see arms and explosives Westmeath, County, 205
Weston, Galen, 121,205 whataboutery', 30, 59-60 Whitelaw, William, 40, 1 19, ...
Ultimately, the campaign collapsed amid acrimony and recrimination and the '
Whataboutery' which the McCartney family were soon enduring from different
sides. Others with relatives killed by the IRA, loyalists or the British Army
demanded ...
No apology from me before you apologise. Whataboutery emerges to make its
demands. Demands that someone else must apologise. And so on. How the
Queen approached this issue in her recent visit to Germany is interesting to
reflect on.
9
Gangsters or guerrillas?: representations of Irish ...
64 Disappointingly, O'Neill's arguments are dismissed, not with
counterarguments but by the unspoken and unspelled-out indictment of their
supposed unreasonableness, and recourse to 'whataboutery' . O'Neill hit back
with the usual litany of ...
10
The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report[s]
As the noble Lord, Lord Tebbit, will know, we have in Northern Ireland what we
have referred to over the years as "whataboutery". When one talks about the
atrocities of the IRA, someone from the other side will say, "Ah, but what about?
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, 1997
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHATABOUTERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
whataboutery is used in the context of the following news items.
Shut up about Cecil the Lion, please
Many of you will say I am engaging in classic whataboutery. My suggestion that in your outrage you are neglecting more important, significant causes is met with ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Moving Forward on North Korean Human Rights
Classic whataboutery from the two previous comments. Amazing. Keve says: July 28, 2015 at 2:52 pm. For North Korea to take South Korea and USA seriously ... «38 North, Jul 15»
The BJP has figured out its own 'zero loss' argument for Sushma …
What she's doing is, in fact, something politicians in this country excel at: whataboutery. That's the art of being able to respond to an allegation by saying, "but ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
Why I heckled David Cameron during the party leaders' debate
Aha I've spotted a whataboutery comment. I am sure she was referring to the poo faced spunkwipe who claimed that 'HIV infected immigrants' are a burden to ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Euan McLean: Stan Collymore bigot row - it was the right thing to …
Don't be fooled, as clumsy and ill-judged as Collymore's intervention was yesterday, he was the victim of this Whataboutery culture that is holding society back. «Scottish Daily Record, Feb 15»
Kathy Sheridan – Nous sommes Charlie Hebdo: souls in need of …
All the whataboutery in the world can never remove personal responsibility for such calculated acts of violence, which, in the case of Kingsmill, were done by ... «Irish Times, Jan 15»
Open Society at a crossroads in France
So much of the whataboutery that we've seen in the past few days has been 'context' about 'Insult to Islam as a proxy for attacks on a persecuted and ... «Slugger O'Toole, Jan 15»
Pakistan dares to ask: will school attack finally end myth of the 'good …
Such statements are what Pakistani journalist Ejaz Haider calls “whataboutery”. “When you say we have a real problem here, the other side will say 'what about ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
The man feminists seemed to think was worse than the Taleban
Whenever I point out inconsistencies like this, I'm always accused of 'whataboutery'. The same charge is levied at anyone who questions why left-wing ... «Spectator.co.uk, Nov 14»
Why are liberal Zionists embracing Matti Friedman's Islamophobia?
Friedman's media critique, at its core, is cherry-picked “whataboutery.” At the close of a US-funded onslaught that killed over 2,000 and leveled entire ... «Mondoweiss, Oct 14»
