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The emperor has no clothes

Reader comment on item: European Islamophobia Report 2020

Submitted by Jeff (United States), Mar 15, 2022 at 21:17

1. Start with a lie that will be useful if people buy into it.
2. Dress it up with legitimate sounding academic activities, seminars and endless conferences.
3. Dress it up some more with angry pronouncements from "civil rights" organizations.
4. Dress it up as an ever more serious and growing problem with huge societal ramifications.
5. Dress it up even more with serious sounding books hundreds of pages long.
6. Repeat 2-5 ad infinitum.

But after all the dressing up, still, the emperor has no clothes.

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