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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Lies, Damned Lies, and "Personal Stories"




Recently the Islamophobes have hit a new low of confirmation bias, or as we like to call it, dissimulation. (This is also true of our other enemies, and I strongly suggest calling it out at every opportunity possible.)

Remember the good old days when factual claims required verification by reliable sources? We who went through the information war from 9/11 onwards know all about this first-hand: if the source is likely to have a particular bias, all its factual claims that serve that bias must at least be corroborated by another source without the same bias before being taken seriously.

Compare this to the linked articles, in which the authors, who have declared political agendas, can simply tell personal stories without any kind of evidence for the events described, and expect to be believed. And they are believed, at least by their fans. Does it occur to these fans that such stories could be entirely fictitious, invented for the sole purpose of propaganda? Unfortunately not. This is what I want to highlight: our enemies are not just wrong in their beliefs, they are not even clear-minded in the way they reinforce their beliefs.

Our response to all such personal stories should be simple: if the author does not verify them, they did not happen. NEVER waste time arguing over the implications of the events described; the author first needs to convince us they occurred at all. And NEVER be drawn into the scam of being challenged to disprove the events; the sceptic is not required to disprove anything. Who stands to benefit from the claim? The claimant. That is the party on which the burden of proof lies.

Otherwise, we might as well start believing (or think it is up to us to disprove) the personal stories of so-called "Holocaust survivors".

1 comment:

  1. Yes, the whole "personal stories" thing is the real "historical revisionism" - as in the same way you revise an essay, you make changes to make it more persuasive! ZC Propaganda Inc. does this as much as possible.

    It has gotten so bad, that the author who wrote "Correlli's Mandolin" (humanist fiction about WW2) circa 1993 himself said that all of history should be taught by stories from ordinary people. He's a goy who effectively promoted the Jewish deception.

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