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title: Whataboutism propaganda in the collection
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/technique/whataboutism/
description: Browse all 8 items from objects tagged whataboutism in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
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Technique

# Whataboutism propaganda in the collection

8 objects, listed by date.

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3. Technique: Whataboutism

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- ["In Belgium and yet when she wanted the vote they told her a woman's place was in the home" (cartoon, 1914)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/in-belgium-and-yet-woman-wanted-the-vote-1914/) (United States · 1914 · Appeal to emotion, Whataboutism)
- [Berliner Tageblatt, evening edition, front page (Berlin, 22 September 1914): "Der Brand der Kathedrale von Reims"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berliner-tageblatt-reims-cathedral-1914/) (German Empire · Sep 22, 1914 · Whataboutism, Card stacking)
- ["Women are too sentimental for jury duty" -- Anti-Suffrage argument (Puck cartoon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/women-too-sentimental-jury-duty-puck-1915/) (United States · Jan 23, 1915 · Whataboutism). Content note: Cartoon quoting an anti-suffrage argument about women's emotional fitness for jury duty, answered by showing weeping male jurors.
- [The Woman's Dreadnought, 15 May 1915, p. 246: "Let Us Not Be Cowards" and "Whose Fiendish Devices?"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/womans-dreadnought-lusitania-fiendish-devices-1915/) (United Kingdom · May 15, 1915 · Whataboutism). Content note: 1915 suffragette-paper text describing anti-German riot violence after the Lusitania sinking and the forcible feeding of imprisoned suffragettes.
- [Veröffentlichungen des deutschen General-Gouvernements (Cavell notice, Brussels)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/general-gouvernement-cavell-notice-brussels-1915/) (German Empire · Dec 2, 1915 · Whataboutism)
- [Sind wir die Barbaren? (Are We the Barbarians?)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sind-wir-die-barbaren-1916/) (German Empire · 1916 · Whataboutism, Card stacking)
- [TASS statement on the 'unidentified intruder' (Korean Air Lines Flight 007), FBIS Daily Report, 6 September 1983](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tass-statement-unidentified-intruder-kal007-1983/) (Soviet Union · Sep 6, 1983 · Card stacking, Whataboutism, Red herring, Gaslighting). Content note: Soviet state-agency statement on a civilian airliner shot down with 269 people aboard; the text calls the flight a 'pre-planned act' and omits its destruction.
- [Radio Moscow World Service on the Chernobyl accident and U.S. reports, FBIS Daily Report, 1 May 1986](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radio-moscow-chernobyl-us-reports-1986/) (Soviet Union · May 1, 1986 · Limited hangout, Whataboutism, Red herring, Gaslighting). Content note: Soviet radio commentary on the Chernobyl disaster that reports two deaths and attributes Western coverage to an 'order'; later assessments recorded far larger casualties.