- The Factual and Rhetorical Silliness of Family Separation Whataboutism: To say that there was "no outrage" about Obama's detention facilities is to tacitly admit that looking up news articles published in 2014 is just too heavy a lift. http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/20/the-factual-and-rhetorical-silliness-of 36 comments politics