

Running some McCarthyist “litmus test” is irrelevant to what I said. At best it’s whataboutism, at worst it’s just fishing for an ad-hominem.
how is what they brought up not relevant to the topic
Literally 100% or instances of liberals using the term whataboutism are them referring to something that is relevant to the general topic.
An ad-hominem is whataboutism: “Whatabout this thing that’s bad about you!” It’s an attempt to distract from the point with an irrelevant distraction.