Coarse Staircase Fallacy

A logical fallacy that can be described as the opposite extreme of the Slippery Slope fallacy. It implies that one is not allowed to bring attention on an evident concerning tendence until some of its predictable outcomes already happened.
It is often used in pseudo-liberal discourse (often coupled with consistent doses of whataboutism) for the purpose of dismissing worries about constantly increasing levels of totalitarianism, and keep pretending that we live in a free/democratic society solely on the grounds that the situation is still not as bad as it is in hardcore dictatorships.
Typical examples:
"We can still vote, so we're not a dictatorship!"
"You can still state your opinions on the Internet, so there's no censorship!"
"Nobody is rounding up and murdering white people, so white genocide is not real!"

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