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It’s just the reductive pedantry that’s so popular on the internet. A CIA operative is the agent of a foreign government, therefore a foreign agent.

A Doctors Without Borders medic is an agent of a foreign organization, therefore a foreign agent.

Therefore CIA and DWB are essentially the same thing. Bonus points if you can find one case where a DWB volunteer also had ties to the CIA, which would totally expose the two orgs as being exactly the same in all ways at all times.

For some reason people just can’t resist reductionism.



> For some reason people just can’t resist reductionism.

Being a bit reductive there, eh?

:)


Nah, overgeneralizing maybe… reductive would have been saying reductionism is no different than overgeneralizing :)




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