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Is Cowbee legit?
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There's a particularly partisan journalist who beats the drum very loudly, but the claims are supported by a much broader selection of evidence.
Yes a while back not cowbee. But another tankie was attacking someone in a thread with regards to the oppression of the Uhygers. Crowing how he was the only one with the truth. How everyone else was merely spouting unsubstantiated CIA agitprop. And couldn't provide any links to back up their claims. I immediately did. And of course their first action was to attack not even the messenger of the claims. Which was family members of people being held by the Chinese government. But the host of the media segment on which they appeared. I wasn't quite sure what to call this fallacy, as it wasn't technically attacking the messenger. It was even further removed than that. And just as stupid as it sounded.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
When I said "there's lots of independent evidence from victims" he related it to how that's also the case for the "white genocide" spiel (which both of us thought to be false) and then went on to say I was therefore engaging in "genocide denialism" the same I thought of him.