Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it’s complicated.

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    1 year ago

    What about the victims of the bomb

    That’s not… Whataboutism. Whataboutism is a tu quoque style counter-argument.

    This article is just people discussing other things that could be in the film.

    The “whatabout what the Japanese did?” is whataboutism. It’s a cheap diversionary tactic used by defensive people when a discussion makes them uncomfortable.