• senoro@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I don’t believe that “A B Abrams” is a reliable source, I don’t know anything about these other things you say. But when I googled A B Abrams, I only found a small selection of very suspect websites. And for that reason, I do not trust this article or this book

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      1 year ago

      you verify a suspect source by analyzing their material and checking their sources for accuracy. just discounting a source because you can’t find info about them is itself unsound reasoning.

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      1 year ago

      “Suspect” based on what exactly? Your preconceived notions of what “good” journalism and places are? Based on your education by Western states with vested interests in portraying their enemies as evil as possible?

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      He isn’t the source, he is the author. As far as I have read he is not claiming firsthand knowledge of the events from the incident. It honestly shouldn’t matter to you if it was written by Mao himself, if there are directly verifiable sources being presented.

      The reliable sources are the accounts he cites, like the diplomats who provided first hand accounts of events there.