Assume people make false public accusations about you. Many observers will think less of you if they believe, but no legal action is threatened. How important is it to publicly respond with denials & rebuttals, & how does that depend on the status of the accuser?
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Replying to @robinhanson
Don't rebut at all, under most circumstances. Ride out the news cycle. PR 101.
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Replying to @primalpoly @robinhanson
Depends if the accusation will leave a mark. If trivial, ignore. If it is damaging beyond just your ego, unleash fire & fury until your rebuttal matches the accusation in search results. Even if punching down.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @robinhanson
In principle, yes. But I've never seen that work if the accusation is about political incorrectness. It's simply impossible to get the rebuttal repeated by enough people to counter-act the initial slander, given the ideological bias in social media.
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Replying to @primalpoly @robinhanson
I’m doing it with the Fine People Hoax. But only a few independent minds are ever in play.
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You should do it with the 10 other major media lies about Trump too. - Muslim registry - Immigrants are animals - They're / their rapists - Mocking disabled reporter etc
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Replying to @jonatanpallesen @ScottAdamsSays and
What’s your view of the Kovaleski story?
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Replying to @SelectivePress @ScottAdamsSays and
Trump was clearly mocking him in a general way, that he has used before in other contexts, and not mocking him specifically for his disability. (Which btw is a different type of disability than that mimicked by Trump.)
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Replying to @jonatanpallesen @ScottAdamsSays and
We might hope that people extend a moderate about of charity to their political opponents, but It’s a tall order to expect them to bend over backwards in the name of charity.
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Replying to @SelectivePress @jonatanpallesen and
I don’t think the argument that he used an unseemly gesture to disparage more than one person is a great alibi.
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It debunks the hoax. Do what you will with the rest.
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