• Yanqui_UXO [any]
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    3 years ago

    Zenz's far-right, anti-semitic and fundamentalist views do not invalidate his research as they are not relevant to the topic. Even a far-right person can be occasionally right.

    oh, ok then! occasionally right is all i needed

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      3 years ago

      Just because he thinks it's his holy mission to destroy china doesn't mean his research is biased or flawed. If you want to continue this arguement I formally invite you to my youtube channel for a debate.

    • raven [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've already decided China bad I'm just trying to explain why China bad, don't you see?

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      you see credibility is a binary and you can't flip it unless I say so

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is a variant of the media was wrong before fallacy.

    The phrase "media was wrong before fallacy" is a thought-terminating cliche designed to prevent you from thinking about how saturated you are with propaganda.

    • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      If the media is wrong a fuckload of times all on the same subject (any foreign policy line the State Department doesn't like), and it's been clearly documented since the late 80s how and why this pervasive line of mistakes exists, at some point it ceases to be a fallacy.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        This reminds me of something I say to libs a lot: the CIA has been involved in so many coups that it is completely rational to assume that they are involved in any other coup that happens, thus the onus is on them to prove that they aren't.

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    The world "rational" has slowly shifted to mean "prejudiced with a thin veneer of intellectual superiority"

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    A Chinese scholar refuted it!

    Adrian Zenz has written a well-sourced rebuttal to it.

    Cool FAQ point. Really summarizes a lot of info.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That guy seems to think Bayesian is a buzzword for rational or something.

  • Abraxiel
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    3 years ago

    Really good breakdown there on the talk page, honestly.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Why is this article longer than the one on New Age? Don't these people know what I use their website for? I can't use any of this in my D&D campaign.

  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The denialism section is pure speculation. It’s just maybe they bribed them or maybe this