Re:Criticizing Google got me fired
by omginternets on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:11PM
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>Many major think tanks are ideological in this way.
That's not at all the same statement as "think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine".
The goalpost has shifted.
Re:Criticizing Google got me fired
by dragonwriter on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:07AM
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> That's not at all the same statement as "think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine"
Yes, it's a different (compatible, though, not contradictory) statement, though related.
> That's not at all the same statement as "think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine"
You are mistaking a many-soded discussion for a two-sided debate. My having a different position than an earlier participant is not a goalpost shift (them changing the point they are arguing for without acknowledging that it has changed would be.)
Re:Criticizing Google got me fired
by asdffdsa321 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:38PM
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Yeah it is; when you are ideological, you put out pieces that subscribe to said ideology and ignore evidence/observations that support other ideologies or contradict your own. This is the same as propaganda which, instead of putting out pieces raised from an objective perspective, you only publish pieces that support a specific ideology.
There is a difference between political subject matter and a clear ideological bias that makes it so if you know the subject and the name of the think tank producing a work, you can predict the general thrust fairly reliably with no other information (or, similarly, where you can identify someone's membership in both a major party and a faction within that party by the think tank’s they are inclined to cite.)
Many major think tanks are ideological in this way.