Propaganda is designed to shake you out of your complacency and - TopicsExpress



          

Propaganda is designed to shake you out of your complacency and drive you to direct action. What better way to do that than throwing out a bunch of images of intimidating blacks and Latinos in an urban area? It clearly worked, as the video has almost 24 million views as of the time Im writing this. Its not explicitly racist, but its definitely using race as a tool, and thats been a smart rhetorical strategy in the United States for a long time—from Abe Lincoln to Lee Atwater to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Race-based persuasion isnt going away any time soon, not as long as we keep buying into it in droves.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:28:14 +0000

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