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Why Are People Hating on Julian Assange? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don't wanna see him live another day, why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Again, and that makes him someone we should ignore and call for the death of?

I understand why people wouldn't like him as a person. I'm not seeing the connection to OP's question about him being publically hated to the point where people want him dead.

THAT ... is absolutely not at all what you reference. People don't want him dead for simply avoiding stepping on Russian toes. I'm trying to get you to think about why that is.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP did something dishonest by making the title and body TOTALLY different, in my opinion.

The title is why are people hating on him. Lots of good answers to that.

The body then switches it to wanting him dead. I don't think very many people want him dead. I think even the CIA/US Government want him alive and in jail rather than dead.

edit: I also think you were implying that disliking him was the same as disliking the idea of whistleblowers generally or wikileaks specifically, though you seem to have walked that back. It definitely doesn't, though the fact that wikileaks is cowed by dictators like Putin is definitely a red flag when compared to their stated mission.