Source that wouldn’t make a history teacher cry, recant, or ban? (It’ll be a ban if I see you continuing to post on your account before addressing this)

Look at the “Origins” tab of the Wikipedia article on whataboutism you linked and sit with your feelings for a second.

You’re promoting it as an alternative to the dictatorship of the proletariat. East Germany went from a proletarian democracy under dictatorship of the proletariat to a bourgeois democracy under dictatorship of capital when reunification happened.

Read principles of communism instead, it is the same content but better formatted

Oh, and watch Luna Oi’s Marxism 101: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeaTLoy1C9rM

Read “whipping girl” by Julia Serano, she goes into the idea of social stigma driving bigotry