And you are lynching Negroes

"And you are lynching Negroes" (Russian: "А у вас негров линчуют") is a catchphrase that describes or satirizes the political rhetoric of the Soviet Union towards the United States in any instance of bilateral discourse in which the latter reproached the former's human rights violations. The remark also highlights a trend among Soviet media to frequently cover stumbling blocks in American internal affairs, such as financial crises and unemployment or racial discrimination and civil unrest, which were all presented as inherent failings of the capitalist system that had supposedly been erased by state communism.

Lynchings of African Americans were brought up as a "skeleton in the closet" for the United States—one that served as ammunition for Soviet propaganda in deflecting criticism of stumbling blocks in Soviet internal affairs. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the phrase has become widespread as a retrospective reference that reveals the ongoing like-minded tactics of Russian disinformation campaigns against the United States, namely during periods of social or political upheaval among Americans.

Former Czech president and writer Václav Havel placed the phrase among "commonly canonized demagogical tricks"; the British newspaper The Economist described it as a form of whataboutism that became ubiquitous after the Soviet Union's dissolution; and the 1993 book Exit from Communism by American historian Stephen Richards Graubard identifies it as symbolizing a divorce from reality.

American author Michael Dobson compared usage of the phrase to the common Spanish-derived idiom "the pot calling the kettle black" and called it a "famous example" of tu quoque reasoning. The American conservative magazine National Review called it "a bitter Soviet-era punch line" and added "there were a million Cold War variations on the joke". The Israeli newspaper Haaretz described use of the idiom as a form of Soviet propaganda. The British liberal political website Open Democracy called the phrase "a prime example of whataboutism". In her 2017 work Security Threats and Public Perception, Dutch professor Elizaveta Gaufman described the fallacy as a tool to reverse someone's argument against them.