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Addis_Qnie, MD

30 Oct, 9 tweets, 5 min read

@timnitGebru

.@timnitGebru Rebuttal
[re-purposing my arguments form the Rand-Corp thread]

1/ @timnitGebru, the fatal flaw at the very heart of your reasoning is your decision to equate information from MSM with truth with regard to the conflict in N. Ethiopia, which begs the question:

https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1454254119045107716

How does one know the news articles and reports from HR groups are not disinformation?
If your arbiters of absolute truth are these media outlets and this was at the time of the Iraqi war, you would have concluded that Iraq possessed WMDs!

If it was during the war on Libya, you would have endorsed the claim by Amnesty that soldiers of Gaddafi were being given free Viagra to encourage mass rape.

@nntaleb

Have you wondered why the coverage of the situation is always from the same angle by these ‘reputable’ media houses? Or are you neglecting this inconvenient truth?
Paraphrasing @nntaleb, if you flip a coin a hundred times and get 99 heads in a row; the coin is rigged!

https://twitter.com/WagShumZeRaya/status/1454338059093352448?s=20

The pro-#Ethiopian side has been leveling a charge that the MSM and HR groups are engaging in informational warfare against Ethiopia and we have also demonstrated how they have been peddling disinformation to the detriment of lasting peace in #Ethiopia.

https://twitter.com/WagShumZeRaya/status/1454338059093352448?s=20

2/ Since you are using your bully pulpit to promote this narrative, it is only legitimate for many Ethiopians to argue that you are contributing towards the worsening of the situation & the creation of lasting animosity among Ethiopians that is being promoted by the MSM.

3/ Your claim that you are antiwar also does not hold up under close scrutiny. If not, why the silence regarding the war being waged against #Amhara & #Afar by #TPLF? It makes one wonder if you also subscribe to the belief that some lives are intrinsically worth more than others!

4/ Invoking Trump, with the hope that the association would be enough to legitimize the outcry of many Ethiopians against the MSM, is simply dishonest and cowardly. You are creating false equivalency and hoping to elicit a gut reaction form your audience!

@timnitGebru

@timnitGebru you have every right to believe in anything you deem to be the truth, but please don’t expect us to endorse your beliefs or standby while your ‘truth’ erodes the very foundation of our nation!

We will continue to #SpreadTheFire of Truth
#DigitalAdwa

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https://twitter.com/EthiopiaInsight/status/1452582790164369420

1/ The writer dismisses every claim ever made about the geopolitical nature of the USGs stance regarding Ethiopia by branding them as conspiratorial, pseudo intellectual and propaganda.

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https://twitter.com/Qnie_Addis/status/1438513301281927172?s=20

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