• Olap@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Crank is hard to define. But go read his subsequent career section

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray

    He’s a crank. Literally stood for parliament as a stand alone candidate. Then advocated for Alba. Recently joined with George Galloway. Was in jail recently. What more do you want on him?

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      18 days ago

      You’ll forgive me but that’s not evidence of a “crank” (unless “crank” simply refers to anyone who doesn’t share your views). You made the assertion that Murray’s “been many many times more discredited than proven correct”. As I said, I’m happy to have my opinion of Murray changed but you’ve not provided any evidence other than a Wikipedia page which doesn’t seem to show he was “discredited” in the way you think it does. He has some opinions which many people don’t share (Salisbury and Starmer come to mind) but, generally, he appears to me to have stood up for some righteous causes (Assange, Palestine, the influence of oligarchs on Brtitish politicians).

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        17 days ago

        To most liberals if you don’t regurgitate their discredited talking points you are seen as on the fringe, or extreme, even if your analysis is coherent and borne by events. It’s one of the reasons why people on both the right and the left despise liberals.

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      17 days ago

      None of those things scream “crank” to me, other than the association with Galloway, but Murray has stated he has very different politics to him, they just agree on some key issues