Stathis Kalyvas recalled something he wrote earlier about Maria Karystianou and it seems to be completely justified.
Earlier Stathis Kalyvas had written that with the case of Tebes an unprecedented attempt is being made to manipulate citizens and political developments in our country, with driving forces from centers outside Greece. He then, as well as those who wrote that Maria Karystianou is doing everything for political purposes and the xylolia are fairy tales, had received a merciless war from an army of internet trolls and not only.
Of course, since then the well-known professor and many others have been completely vindicated for what they said about Maria Karystianou and the unprecedented lies about Thembi. Even the other relatives distanced themselves from both Karstianou and the incredible conspiracy theories.
As Stathis Kalyvas says in a post, he wrote that over the “Oxygen”, as the Tempi rallies were then called after massive misinformation from internet bots, a huge campaign of political manipulation was set up. And developments are proving him right.
As he argues, this was helped not only by various spouting conspiracy theorists but also by useful idiots in politics, journalism and social media. Let’s not forget that Maria Karystianou and the antics of the beatings were made a flag by many opposition parties, from PASOK and Konstantopoulou to Syriza and Velopoulos, thinking that they would bring down the government and gain political benefits.
In fact, the conspiracy theories even reached the European Parliament from Syriza executives, while PASOK even made a motion of impeachment against the government for the non-existent xylolos. At the same time then Zoe Konstantopoulou even came second in the polls, trying to politically appropriate the accident.
The professor recalled that at the time a well-known journalist reprimanded him just because he dared to criticize what Maria Karystianou said. In other words, we had reached a level where a different opinion against Maria Karystianou was almost forbidden.
And he closes with the most apt word that can describe the situation we lived with Tempi and Maria Karystianou: Paranoia.
Here’s the relevant post:
