When it comes to the Welsh Government's stated aim to follow Sweden, and become a proudly feminist Government, there are some more serious examples of "
whataboutery" to overcome.
Fans who are accused of being close to the knuckle - and it happens - will respond with indignant "
whataboutery" and say that Boro fans chanted this about Jimmy Savile, or Boro chanted that about Adam Johnson.
The fact closing were When he did eventually get the book out, for a late one by Morelos on Dedryck Boyata, he was met with the inevitable deluge of
whataboutery for everything he had ignored previously.
He said last week: "I do not accept this
whataboutery tat the moment, 'don't bother investigating one crime until you have pursued a worse crime'.
This is far from a cynical exercise in pro-Israeli
whataboutery. There are very good reasons that Israel attracts such widespread criticism and condemnation in the west.
This can lead, as it does in a local TV program, "Talkback," to what Cairns calls "
whataboutery" -- each side countering the other's charges with "but what about ...?"
Yes, the Gers fans who jumped on the disabled section roof acted like idiots but there's no need for
whataboutery because there are rockets in every support.
The said
whataboutery also shrinks our world (and worldviews) even further, denying us our basic right to empathy.
Regardless of whether terrorist attacks are perpetrated by white or Islamist extremists, their narratives must not be enabled through
whataboutery.
It's virtually the only thing keeping tin-foil hat makers and our finest purveyors of
whataboutery i n business.
And what a joy to be alive as Corbynistas reached hitherto undiscovered levels of
whataboutery and ignored the evidence of their eyes to hold onto the greater truth that Saint Jeremy could never say or do anything wrong ever.
Sharif's opponents are quick to argue that
whataboutery of this kind, saying that no one can be held accountable until everyone is, is a poor argument to make in the former Prime Minister's defence since it hardly absolves him of his guilt, suggesting instead that investigation and judgment be deferred until such time that the institutions tasked with discharging these functions are able to do so in a more comprehensive, wide-ranging, and perhaps even unrealistic manner.
When he did eventually get the fact closing were the book out, for a late one by Morelos on Dedryck Boyata, he was met with the inevitable deluge of
whataboutery for everything he had ignored previously.
Mention sectarianism and you open yourself up to another of the game's long-standing blights,
whataboutery.
"She deserved it" becomes easier than to have a hard look within and on societal attitudes in which trivialisation of violence on women is an everyday occurrence, and
whataboutery after every violent crime by a man is manifested in all its ugly cringe-worthy blatancy.