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the point you're contesting is who coined the term, the unimportant part of the comment you're replying to. it sounds like you're saying, "of course the liberals are hypocrites, but they didn't coin the term!" is that what you mean to say?

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There is nothing "important" about the comment I'm replying to, it's well below HN commenting standards.

.. and yes, I see it's flagged/dead now.

If you go to the Google ngram viewer you won’t see a single occurrence of whataboutism before 2006. I’m not saying it was coined at the Liberals Coining Scare Words 2006 conference, but use of the word is a hallmark of a shitlib hypocrite. Whatabout and whataboutism are two different words.

i was just telling you how you sound and asking if that's how you mean to sound.

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