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  • I was watching it from afar. As I recall, he bailed on his presentation and got back to it after being talked to (and threatened?) and presented his schlock. Now, not saying the guy was at all blameless, but I watched him presenting and thought to myself, ‘this guy doesn’t believe this stuff at all’.

    It pissed me off that the folks in the US were not seeing the whole picture.

  • Tiananmen Square was debunked?

    I mean, I was alive when the pics came out. Been aware of the censorship. Had friends from China and friends who worked there tell me about the complete avoidance of the subject.

    Oh, and I’m not a bot, though you could be protecting your psyche by saying everyone who pushes back on this is.

    It is just as foolish to not admit to the atrocities done by one government as it is for any other.

  • No, but it gives him a reason to be read and considered. Taking anyone’s ideas just because they said them is… problematic to say the least.

    I am just trying to give you a bit more context than you seem willing to find, and, as everyone who has responded in this thread seems to note, you are writing responses that seem bizarrely … aggressive?

    I mean, I’m not wed to the idea, nor am I to all the man’s writings, but you seem extremely set against him with no explanation.

  • Weird story time: My great grandfather was obviously the source of the autism in our family line. Man could not read social subtext to save his life. He felt driven to find some sort to group to belong to that had set meetings and such. For a 5 year span, he joined, like, everyone. Elks, masons, you name it. When we were helping him clean out his house in the early 90s we found a KKK uniform. We asked about it. Apparently it was billed as a men’s group and they just had costumes made. He went along with it for a few meeting and then the extracurriculars were discussed at his last meeting. He finally got the point of it. He got out. We had his calendar book from that year(and every year from the 30s-retirement) and we saw the date where he started crossing out the KKK meeting times.

    Why he kept it? It was the best work his wife had ever done.

    Several years later I asked my grandfather if his dad was racist. Basically, he said that his dad had gotten in trouble for not understanding the racist, unwritten policies he was supposed to enforce and kept asking why, as there was no logic to them.

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    Dr. OpenAI will see you now