If Harry Truman were alive today, he would modify his statement “if you cannot convince them, confuse them” with a new premise “if you cannot convince them, fake yourself”. The latter one is very much in sync with today’s epoch, especially when it comes to dealing with the ‘historians’ and ‘experts’ and last-but-not-least the trollers-and-toadies who twist narratives to respectively serve the interests and agenda of their political ideologies and masters.
And, this has been going on for centuries!
Recently, in my observation, there’s something fishy against Buddha on social media, especially on Twitter. Suddenly. Verily. No doubt the current landscape has benefitted a lot from the production and dissemination of ‘fake’ news, but it went so far that ‘otherization’ has been normalized very conveniently. With all due respect, please take note of a very uncomfortable fact: Buddha is not an avatar of Vishnu