• iceonfire1@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    IDK why you’re trying to source someone else’s comment for them, but if you read the comment and the wiki you would see that they are not in agreement.

    This is why I asked for their source. Sorry if you find that offensive for some reason lol

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      14 hours ago

      Correct, as I said elsewhere they got the distribution wrong because they are working off memory, but it’s not difficult to link the numbers - they mistook the police and army as having the same number of deaths as civilian protestors rather than student protestors, but the total roughly matches and there’s only one source that makes that specific distinction between groups rather than a general guess at a total. I don’t understand why you’re so upset about being told the source after asking for the source.

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        3 hours ago

        So just to clarify, you think that:

        1.) you can provide the correct source for another person’s statement

        2.) what you posted qualifies as a source even though you did not give one

        3.) it’s OK if the statement does not agree with the source

        4.) you can justify your misattribution by cherry-picking a number that “roughly” agrees if you massage it

        Bruh.