Some of them are predisposed to dislike Saussure and to hope that they can somehow discredit him by learning more about things that he thought that aren't actually in the text.

那些不喜欢他的人们,希望能找出更多书中没有提到的,他的思想，以打击此书的权威性。

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But it's a basic rule of politics: If you can't disprove the message, you try to discredit the messenger.

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You'd think so, but liberals can't seem to handle this truth so they are now trying to discredit the jobs that accompany it.

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For oppositionists, UMNO's constant efforts to discredit Anwar mean one thing: "It shows he just won't go away, " says Lim Kit Siang, secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party (DAP).

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