This is what he said in the opening of his post.
Definition of whataboutism, and a typical deflection by the right.
Following it up with, "what can be done?" Apathy, and it reads like a formulaic post from the typical right wing person.
This entire situation was avoidable, trying to downplay ethnic cleansing is disgusting.
You're such a fraud.
I'm not ... downplaying ethnic cleansing? What the fuck are you even talking about? You're just posting outright lies ("the military is 90% neonazis" Wtf how does this even make sense, the military is 40% minority...)
I'm also not on the right, I'm a liberal, from the most liberal state in the country.
Mentioning solutions that other administrations have taken to problems is not
whataboutism. As much as you might hope, not everything is a convenient, brainless internet slang. It might be easy to for you to think that way, so that you don't have to use critical thinking, but it's not true. Whataboutism would be if I said, "Well obama used cages, so Trump using cages is okay!" No. The Obama Administration used military bases to temporarily house migrant children just a few years ago, it's not ... fucking justifying ethnic cleansing (wtf...? You think the Obama administration participated in ethnic cleansing...? Is this like your state that 90% of the military is neonazis?),
because it's a temporary solution that
might actually help.
I don't even think you know what the phrase
whataboutism means. The way you're using it suggests you've seen other people use it on the internet, and you want to feel like how those other people might feel when they use it accurately, so you're trying to use it too. Whataboutism is when you justify something bad with something bad and irrelavant that some other administration/person did. But, when you're talking about immigrant housing crisis, and if the previous administration had a potential solution that seemingly worked... it's not whataboutism to mention "This is what previous administrations did and it seemed to help."
The government has a responsibility to make the best worst decision here with these 20,000 children. The government has put them in this position, but they actually exist. They're not just an internet argument. It's not one of those things that you can post lies about -- say like what the President does -- and sling mud, call someone names, and then *poof* it's fixed. No, the government
actually has to temporarily house these children while they reunite them with their families and process their asylum applications and integrate them into the country. There may be some better alternatives than military bases, like it'd be great i fthere was some infrastructure of migrant settlement homes or something, but there aren't, and
previous administration had used military bases to try to solve similar problems.
Also, the people coming up with temporary solutions like these
aren't Trump. They're people who Trump crticize -- Trump's so-called "The Deep State." The Trump Administration is not willing to come up with solutions, but the administrative network in the government -- that network that has been in these positions for years through multiple administrations -- is trying to. Someone in the Pentagon probably suggested this to the administration, then of course Trump goes out and pretends like he came up with it and then orders the Pentagon to do it... Trump doesn't have the chops to come up with solutions on his own.
