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Obama's human rights record is abysmal. Sure he did a lot of good things too, but not closing Guantanamo, ramping up drone strikes etc negate all of that good. I've written him a couple of letters with all of this in detail to which he has yet to respond (no surprise). Instead he's doing voice over work for shitty documentaries on Netflix.
When trying to hold your leaders to a higher standard gets you downvotes. Classic.
The downvotes are for the whataboutism
I don't disagree. But holding both sides of the aisle to a certain standard doesn't have to be whataboutism, though. It's possible to look at government's behavior as a whole without deflecting in the name of your particular side.
In this case though, it's a community note on xitter, so it's definitely there as whataboutism