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Don't ascribe motive ("cause xenophobic feelings") unless you can back it up.
by computerfriend 3y ago
Don't ascribe motive ("cause xenophobic feelings") unless you can back it up.
- th0ma5 3y agoThat's the very point I'm trying to make about this dubious article and all the people posting conspiracy theories here. How can we say they aren't trying to cause xenophobic feelings?
- computerfriend 3y agoIf you can't say either way, don't say it at all.
- th0ma5 3y agoYes exactly ... If you can't prove the lab leak stop writing articles about it, people.
- computerfriend 3y agoDon't accuse people of xenophobia, is my point.
- th0ma5 3y agoSure yes, that is a fair point, but this conversation doesn't ascribe that kind of limitation in the argument, because we're already talking about other motivations. Maybe (probably lol) they were negligent, maybe it was an accident, my point is if we are also trying to get people to think for a moment "or maybe they did it on purpose" then it follows that people are pushing that idea, if false, for xenophobic reasons.
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- at_compile_time 3y agoAh, so when people disagree with you, it's because they're conspiracy theorists and you're ready to make wild assumptions about their motives. How perfectly reasonable of you.
- th0ma5 3y agoThis article literally explores and lays out theories about how potentially events and people could've conspired to our present day. I don't think that is intellectually helpful.