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In reply to the discussion: Pro-Palestine protestors storm Democratic holiday party. One woman punched in face [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)It is a frame job to play on the default worldview in the minds of the audience.
The attempt is constantly signaling and trying to take advantage of sympathies being broadly with the left against right. By pounding away describing one actor as such but never the other makes the steadfast omission say all that is necessary.
No, folks that know anything won't directly fall for it but the hook will set with those that don't more than reason would allow some make believing The Rebel Alliance is just landing a blow against the evil Galactic Empire.
Those will definitely repeat and magnify the frame job.
As a nice bonus the pure pervasiveness of the signal will feed the idea in many people's subconscious even without a direct hit.
Slick but observable.
Borrowing well worn tactics, most effectively used by the Death to Israel gang for decades to generate this whole farce almost from ground up in no small degree.