Uighur genocide - RationalWiki
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  • 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.