Russia spreading false claims about Qur’an burnings to harm NATO bid, says Sweden - eviltoast

Defence agency says Moscow is using the protests in Stockholm to stir tensions between Arab countries and the west

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure the Greeks figured out that logical fallacy 25 centuries ago. Wikipedia says the particular coining of that term comes from the 1970s to justify IRA tactics.

    I want a citation that it was “created during the cold war to also dismiss when the west was criticized back then.”

    • hark@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I wasn’t claiming the fallacy was invented that recently, obviously. I thought the term was, but apparently I got the timing wrong on that. My bad.