Reply #16: If niggardly and spic&span were used repeatedly to describe [View All]

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an African American embezzlement suspect and the lack of arrest record of a Spanish maid accused of murder, I think it would be reasonable to assume the people using the term know exactly what they're doing.

Accusing someone of murder isn't racist, so your point is falling quite flat with me.

Furthermore, my larger point that 9/11 CT theories, as well as many others, began on right-wing loon sites stands strong with no rebuttal. Isn't it peculiar that so many of those sites have to be deleted from CTist posts here?

Conspiracy Theories and Far-Right Disinformation

The rabbit hole goes much deeper than you would ever believe. Or so the conspiracy theorists of the world would have you believe. But dig behind the scenes of the conspiracy crowd, and you'll find another conspiracy...
http://drlaniac.com/articles/view.asp?file=ConspiracyDisinfo.htm

excerpt from Right Woos Left, by Chip Berlet

Paranoid Conspiracism and the Right
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There are many individuals around the country promoting unsubstantiated and often paranoid conspiracy theories in publications, lectures and radio talk show interviews. While some of these conspiracy theories are very attractive on the surface, and are undeniably entertaining, they ultimately serve to distract people from serious analysis and crowd out serious discussion of government misconduct, covert action, foreign policy, and civil liberties. It doesn't matter if the source is sincere, psychotic, sensationalist, or sent with disinformation by sinister souls to sink the story, the result is that careful and arduous investigations into a story are undermined as each element of an elaborate conspiracy theory is disproven.

There certainly are real conspiracies in history, and the U.S. political scene has been littered during the past thirty years with examples of illegal political and government operations ranging from Watergate to Iran Contragate, and from the FBI's Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) to the systematic looting of the savings and loan industry. Separating real conspiracies from the fictional, non-rational, lunatic, or deliberately fabricated variety is the problem faced by serious researchers, activists, and journalists. In this paper the term conspiracy theorist refers to someone whose analysis of documents, statements, and other evidence has become uncoupled from a logical train of thought.
http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/rwooz9-02.html#P78_28432

Btw, it should be noted again that this thread is about a repuke who is supporting CT theories! Hello.

Thanks to salvordin for previously posting the above links.