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Welcome again to everybody. Make yourselves at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
☭ Matrix homeserver and space
☭ Theory discussion group on /c/theory@lemmygrad.ml
☭ Find theory on ProleWiki, marxists.org, Anna's Archive
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While I was scrolling through the proverbial bowls of the internet today I found this gem (obviously through a repost on tankiethedeprogram because holy shit I'm not that insane as to go onto nominally Zionist subreddits willingly) which just spreads outright bullshit (obviously).
I think what is more interesting though is that the author of the post attempting to state the Nazi propaganda is real attempted to use a veneer of academic legitimacy by creating a Bibliography, though as you may quickly notice this bibliography is missing one very important component of a Bibliography, links to the actual sources he/she used.
Instead all you have are the author names (which conveniently all of the names of the author's are western but that's another thing entirely.) now why is this a bad thing, well, academics can publish numerous articles in there lifespan and only linking the names of the sources authors (assuming said sources even exist) means that the investigator has to scour through hundreds of articles from dozens of authors wasting a significant amount of time just because the Reddit chud couldn't be asked to provide a link to the sources he/she are using.
Obviously this is highly cowardly, as it's likely the reason Mr or Ms chud did this was because they did not want there sources to thoroughly examined and criticised (most likely because its primary source documentation is from the fucking Nazis and hence unreliable) which in turn meant that they are able to present there statement as "intellectually backed" while still being able to avoid investigation and criticism of the sources they used.
Yeah I know, Reddit is a cesspit but this could potentially be a new tactic emerging from the reactionaries as a means to dismiss socialist retoric, that of "faux intellectualism" so watch out in the future.
