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In reply to the discussion: It's hate. Period. [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)on a daily basis to convince us that anyone who challenges the status quo is evil. I could dissect your entire OP and point out every propaganda device you use, but I don't have the time, so I'll just start with the beginning of your post
OP subject line: It's hate. Period.
Second paragraph: "It's racism, bigotry, hate, agendas, envy and jealousy, but a lot of it is based on race, even. the envy."
Propaganda technique used: Name calling/stereotyping: Giving a person, a group, or an idea a bad label by association with easy to remember negative words.
The purpose of your OP in this case is to put the idea into people's minds that all critics of President Obama are racists, in a duplicitous attempt to discourage people from criticizing President Obama and status quo corporatism. You discreetly avoid naming any specific group so that you can use weaselspeak to deny that you are trying to broadbrush all critics of Obama as racists.
Long time Duers didn't just fall off the turnip truck yesterday. We suffered through 8 long horrible years of constant daily propaganda during the Bush regime, and are now able, due to this long experience, to spot GOP/DLC/Third Way/corporatist propaganda on the head of a pin from a mile away. Many of us familiarized ourselves with recognizing propaganda by actually studying various essays on how to recognize propaganda.
I knew exactly what you were doing the second I spotted your OP subject line.
Obviously, judging by the responses to your OP, and subsequent OP's posted as a reactions to your OP, the vast majority of us are not buying your propaganda, and recognize it for what it is:
Bullshit propaganda used to maintain support for the corporatist status quo.
Tom Tomorrow frequently identifies and exposes this type of propaganda through his very excellent art work.
