In defense of Gary Johnson's "Aleppo" question?

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67. Hmm, maybe you should re-read my posts

And, yes, you are judging - "pseudo-experts", right from the moment you joined this thread. You call him being unable to recognise 'Aleppo' "superficial", while saying DUers are showing "ignorance" - though your evidence for that seems to be mistakes in some media reports.

There's pretty good evidence of psuedo-experts. Not sure why you assumed I was talking about DUers.

Thought if you want, we can talk about some of the claims made by people here. I still remember arguing with people here who were convinced that Ur Bill was about to fall. If you don't think that most of the chatter people have is mainly about what they see in the mainstream media (rather than about which important things are happening), I would suggest you look at a more diverse collection of sources.

There will be a limit on what people's knowledge is - you've picked one small piece of the conflict, and said that if people don't know about that, there's no difference from not recognising 'Aleppo'.

Actually that's not what I said: "People wouldn't have the same expectations if the question was about, say, Afrin Canton. In fact, most would probably think it would be ridiculous to expect a candidate to know about that if it was dropped in an interview question. That's not because it's not important, but because it's not talked about."