Noun: whataboutery
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- An attempt to discredit an opponent's argument or question by accusing them of hypocrisy (or some other accusation) rather than countering the actual argument
"Instead of addressing the issue, he resorted to whataboutery, bringing up unrelated past events";
- whataboutism [informal]
Derived forms: whatabouteries
Encyclopedia: Whataboutery