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13 points

2 years ago

You remember that interaction better than I do.

Don’t worry, even if I never saw the username I would have responded the same way, because my contempt is for what you are saying now, not whatever it was that you said before.

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Venustum [they/them]@hexbear.netOP

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2 years ago

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10 points

2 years ago

I am saying that you are being uncritical of the reporting as though all the past bullshit reports taught you nothing. Yes, if HRW was known to be giving us the best representation of what happened, that would reflect a very serious problem. We do not know that they are.

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Venustum [they/them]@hexbear.netOP

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2 points

2 years ago

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9 points

2 years ago

I haven’t even read the whole thing yet. What I am saying is that we shouldn’t simply accept its characterizations uncritically. Is media criticism such a wild idea?

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2 points

2 years ago

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2 years ago

You’re just assuming bias because it’s more convenient for you. When something makes strong claims, you must hold it to high standards.

Even if you were right and I only exercise basic media literacy for sources critical of China, that would not make my criticisms of those sources incorrect. It would make my defense of other sources incorrect.

You are literally arguing that we shouldn’t criticize something that could plainly be atrocity propaganda because maybe we don’t criticize if Für Elise is replicating German chauvinism. It’s a joke of an argument.

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