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> People are entitled to form their own opinions about deBoer's credibility, and he is not entitled to set conditions on how they do that. I don't know what co
by JamesBarney 5y ago
> People are entitled to form their own opinions about deBoer's credibility, and he is not entitled to set conditions on how they do that.
I don't know what conditions he's set, he's just asking people to include context. Context which completely changes how most people would view that incident.
Maybe "unambiguously a lie" is a too strong and you can't tell a lie by taking an action out of context, but if you can this is it.
- newbie789 5y agoHis position is that “If you don’t support my extensive writing about race science, you’re a bigot and a liar because of an incident unrelated to my extensive writing about race science, which has singularly made me a victim of the mob - not my actual writing or opinions. Any criticism of me personally is by definition predicated on the thing I said in 2017 and not my body of work since then.” That’s the condition that he set!
- JamesBarney 5y agoYou put quotes around that, but I read the article and searched through the article and he never wrote that.
- newbie789 5y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paraphrase https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paraphrase
- watwut 5y ago> Maybe "unambiguously a lie" is a too strong In many cases it is simply a lie - of the exact kind he complains about here.