We saw a naval officer relieved of command for having the scope backwards on his rifle.

Well in that case, it was just a matter of bad optics.

Know Your Meme’s page on Loss.

Basically, a 2000s webcomic about gamer culture devoted a comic (titled Loss) to the writer’s partner who had a miscarriage. It’s four wordless panels, and the characters in each panel take up roughly the positions of the rectangles in the OP.

Tonally, it was the complete opposite of what the webcomic normally covered, and it really shocked its readers who, being an internet community, responded with irony and parody, and now there are a ton of Loss references out there.

According to Wikipedia: “Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in “what about…?”) is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.”

under Republican leadership the situation would likely be worse

…doesn’t address the original argument.

I think your original comment works to point out that Republicans wouldn’t have a foot to stand on if they were to criticise Democrats for being pro-genocide, but it’s not a proper defence of Democrats being pro-genocide or hypocritical.