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It's fairly easy to a smear campaign someone that does not fit into your narative. All you have to do is put some labels on him, take things of out context, at

It's fairly easy to a smear campaign someone that does not fit into your narative. All you have to do is put some labels on him, take things of out context, attribute things not said or done to the said person, and pretend to debunk him. This way you never have to make the counterargument to the argument made by that person. You just dismiss him in whole. I don't know if that's the case here, but considering the name-calling from the start, the typical labeling (racist, homophobe, islamophobe, Nazi, RT-shill), I'd say it fits.

dreamweapon 12y ago
There's no need to "smear" him. By appearing on RT, he's discredited himself enough.
- dTal 12y ago
  Remarkably, Richard Stallman has appeared on RT.
- coldtea 12y ago
  And by attacking RT you've discredited yourself enough.
coldtea 12y ago
Especially when they start with " RT shill". As if RT is in any way worse than, say, CNN. As a non-Russian and non-US person, I find it way more balanced.
- dreamweapon 12y ago
  As if RT is in any way worse than, say, CNN. My Russian friends would probably laugh at what you're saying. You have to be very, very naive about what's happening in Russia these days to have that impression.
  - coldtea 12y ago
    And MY Russian friends would laugh at what you're saying too. It's a kind of selection bias: the kind of Russian friends that laugh at RT are the kind of friends a westerner would make (especially if they are involved in entrepreneurship and IT or social media etc). They are the kind of people with little experience of modern history and a strong western bias that westerners find everywhere (e.g. even in places like the Middle East, and make general examples out of them). They are not representative of the majority of Russian population, though, who predominantly voted for Putin. Kind of like liberal lefties reading Counterpunch and the like are not representative of the majority of the US population.

dreamweapon 12y ago

There's no need to "smear" him. By appearing on RT, he's discredited himself enough.

dTal 12y ago
Remarkably, Richard Stallman has appeared on RT.
coldtea 12y ago
And by attacking RT you've discredited yourself enough.

coldtea 12y ago

Especially when they start with " RT shill". As if RT is in any way worse than, say, CNN. As a non-Russian and non-US person, I find it way more balanced.

dreamweapon 12y ago
As if RT is in any way worse than, say, CNN. My Russian friends would probably laugh at what you're saying. You have to be very, very naive about what's happening in Russia these days to have that impression.
- coldtea 12y ago
  And MY Russian friends would laugh at what you're saying too. It's a kind of selection bias: the kind of Russian friends that laugh at RT are the kind of friends a westerner would make (especially if they are involved in entrepreneurship and IT or social media etc). They are the kind of people with little experience of modern history and a strong western bias that westerners find everywhere (e.g. even in places like the Middle East, and make general examples out of them). They are not representative of the majority of Russian population, though, who predominantly voted for Putin. Kind of like liberal lefties reading Counterpunch and the like are not representative of the majority of the US population.