That you carefully avoid naming names is itself a symptom of the problem, as well as contributing to it (I’m not in any way blaming you—you have to protect yourself). You self-censor, along with a lot of other sensible and reasonable people, with the result that the propaganda goes unanswered. Of course a lot of people are not shy about attacking the propaganda, but they either already were or else become low-status, which has the perverse effect of strengthening the propaganda.
It’s really very inconvenient for me that you never name names, which leaves the discussion at an abstract and therefore not entirely useful level. Additionally it’s not very convincing, because you don’t give the material, specific evidence that your claims are true (again, entirely understandable and blameless). It’s a bit like discussing the conflict between the creationists and the Darwinists without ever saying that that’s what you’re talking about, let alone saying which side is right and why. (It is safe to mention the Darwinists versus the creationists, because the right side, the Darwinists, are high status.)
That you carefully avoid naming names is itself a symptom of the problem, as well as contributing to it (I’m not in any way blaming you—you have to protect yourself). You self-censor, along with a lot of other sensible and reasonable people, with the result that the propaganda goes unanswered. Of course a lot of people are not shy about attacking the propaganda, but they either already were or else become low-status, which has the perverse effect of strengthening the propaganda.
It’s really very inconvenient for me that you never name names, which leaves the discussion at an abstract and therefore not entirely useful level. Additionally it’s not very convincing, because you don’t give the material, specific evidence that your claims are true (again, entirely understandable and blameless). It’s a bit like discussing the conflict between the creationists and the Darwinists without ever saying that that’s what you’re talking about, let alone saying which side is right and why. (It is safe to mention the Darwinists versus the creationists, because the right side, the Darwinists, are high status.)