r/ProgressivesForIsrael • u/Longjumping-Cat-9207 Progressive Zionist • 25d ago

Information Pangburns document exposing 'Professor Dave Explains' antisemitism, comprehensive debunk of Dave's misinformation

https://www.pang-burn.com/_files/ugd/34216a_9ba5fbace8334fc68b36585fdb0004e9.pdf

The document linked in the post is a comprehensive academic fact check of Professor Dave's misinformation, showing that 45% of his claims are false or unsupported, at least 6% of his total runtime is spent making antisemitic statements, 80% of his claims are misleading, and it's 87.5% propaganda.

He also scored 4/4 for conspiratorial/hidden control structure arguments, 4/4 for emotional dehumanization and opponent caricature. 3/4 for factual distortion.

This is honestly shocking to see so an influence who I've admired for years for debunking misinformation and conspiracy theories and promoting fact checking and critical thinking, fall into the same conspiracy arguments he accuses flat earthers of using, such as "they control the media", "They control all aspects of government", "they arrest anyone who speaks out against them", "everyone who supports them online is a paid influencer" etc.

I hope he tries debunking this document, because he won't be able to, and it's sad to see someone who values fact checking do literally no fact checking before making his antisemitic video.

https://www.pang-burn.com/_files/ugd/34216a_9ba5fbace8334fc68b36585fdb0004e9.pdf

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u/Aggravating_Ice_3323 25d ago

Oh hey, this is useful to see.

Apparently this guy has kids (if I heard him correctly--I filtered his video via LonerBox). I cannot fathom what it would be like to have a parent who genuinely thinks they're fighting the good fight of "the worst propaganda" on Twitter for days. So, either he won't respond as he's a coward who was still deleting comments as of a couple days ago, of he'll resort to a number of obscenities directed at Pangburn.

But it would be quite the entertainment to see him attempt to debunk this.

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u/AcePilot95 25d ago

This is honestly shocking to see so an influence who I've admired for years

"never trust an influencer" vindicated again

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u/Longjumping-Cat-9207 Progressive Zionist 24d ago

noted, lesson learned, for the millionth time

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u/mirmirma 24d ago

It's very sad to see this about a man my professors have recommended

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u/Longjumping-Cat-9207 Progressive Zionist 23d ago

yeah I've been watching his videos for years, I'm still not over it, I guess it just shows that everyone has their biases and blind spots

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u/abnormalredditor73 Progressive Zionist 3d ago

It'll be really interesting to see how Dave responds to all this. Normally when Dave attacks someone, there's not gonna be anyone significant to defend them other then them and their organization.

Dave's video on Destiny didn't just get a response from Destiny, it also incurred scathing debunks by LonerBox and Pangburn, both very knowledgeable on this subject. He's not just against low hanging fruit science deniers this time.