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VERY concerned LMBO (lemmy.ml)
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[–] -3 points 11 months ago* (10 children)

Idk man, this page has over 401 citations from various sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China?wprov=sfla1

Edit: This also has a lot of citations ns from various sources too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia_in_China?wprov=sfla1

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    The 400 citations in question:

    [1] Victims of Communism Memorial Association

    [2] Burger Eagle Freedom Institute

    [3] China Freedom NGO (Washington DC)

    [4-399] Western State Television Station (retrieved in 2020)

    [400] Literally the CIA

    The article editors in question:

    u/USA_STEM_Edgelord_USA_1990

    u/TotallyNotAFed69

    u/WhiteCisManInHis30s

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    And you've read zero of them.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Sounds like cope

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Someone once put together a book titled, "One Hundred Authors Against Einstein." Einstein dismissed the book with the quip, "Why one hundred? If I were really wrong, they'd only need one."

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a colossal reach at best, and pathetic cope at worst.

    You understand the colossal differences between multiple independent journalists researching and reporting on the same topic, and a large organized group of pseudointellectuals trying to disprove a single person based on vibes alone, right?

    You seem to be very desperately, and pathetically holding onto a form of fallacy of composition:

    https://practicalpie.com/fallacy-of-composition/

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    No, I'm simply calling out a lazy gish gallop. It's the same in both cases.

    How many sources are listed on the Wikipedia page for Christianity? If I accept your logic as valid, it seems I'll have to convert.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Ah yes. Libopedia the pinnicle of (western) truth!

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Wikipedia is one of the most reliable sources of public information, most especially do to the international collaboration efforts on it.

    You can't just dismiss a source on the basis that you don't like it. You need to provide actual evidence that the source is untrustworthy

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    Wikipedia is one of the most reliable sources of public information

    Yeah if you're looking up wood joints and math theorems. Not if you're trying to learn anything about politics or history that ties into the interests of the systems and institutions that filter the media allowed as valid citations.

    You need to provide actual evidence that the source is untrustworthy

    Do they ban the New York Times because they lied the country into every war it's been in since McKinley?

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