Training manuals and Guidebooks for educators
Published Thursday 16 November 2023 at 15:45
Published Thursday 16 November 2023 at 15:45
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The straw man fallacy occurs when someone misrepresents or exaggerates another person's argument to make it easier to attack or refute.
Instead of addressing the actual issue or argument, they fight a distorted or oversimplified version of it created by themselves, thereby sidestepping the genuine discussion at hand. [+]
Discussing anti-Western narratives is a hot topical issue nowadays, but not a new one - just as propaganda is not an expression of our times, but has a long history behind it. I will not talk about the general course of anti-Western propaganda in Eastern Europe and especially in Romania, but about my personal experience with this field and the sometimes arduous process of countering it with honest and transparent means.
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