a statue of Thomas jefferson has been violated, because he was also a "slave owner"
nowadays equity owners are in principle something similar.
but,
if BLM truly cares so much about slavery, why is it just tearing down statues of slave traders and slave owners from centuries long ago.
why aren't they protesting against the current slavery in Africa. why so hypocritical?
also why do they call the police when someone drives into their protesting rallies?
the only logical answer is BLM is simply a racist movement, otherwise it would protest for the current slaves in africa and not attack figures of american colonisation and foundation.
Whataboutism is not an argument but a fallacy. And big disorganized movements like BLM and Antifa are not wholly responsible for acts done by parts of them. It would be the same thing to find an atheist serial killer and then try to paint all atheists as serial killers.
By the way, can you link to the specific Jefferson statue so we can learn about that story? I saw a video of some high schoolers taking down a jefferson statue. Honestly, I say it's fair game in the context of a high school. If the statue was in a museum, or if the statue itself had historical significance then I'd be against it. But some shitty little statue in a high school, I don't really care.
That being said, I don't really care if historical figures like Jefferson owned slaves. That's just the times they lived in. We should be able to take our history warts and all, just like if a great writer was a murderer or a rapist that wouldn't make his/her books any less valuable. Same with a great scientist. People are not either good or bad, they're more complicated than that.
people that attack whataboutism don't want to be exposed as hypocrits.