Propaganda: How Government Authorities Decieve the Public into supporting crimes against political opponents.
How did Hitler and few thousand NAZIs convince thousands of German soldiers and Eastern European collaborators to MURDER of 6 million people, 6 million Jews? How did Hitler and few thousand NAZIs convince millions of German citizens to consent to the forced deportation of Jews to work camps; to concentration camps; to death camps?
PROPAGANDA; THAT'S HOW. The NAZIs demonized and villified the Jews convicning the German society that the Jews were vermin, were rats, that needed to be eliminated from society; to be exterminated.
The purpose of copaganda is to sway public opinion for the benefit of law enforcement and redirect attention away from news which may generate a negative image of law enforcement.
However, while an article about Robert Downey Jr. visiting a child dying of leukemia doesn’t have an impact on the public perception of criminal justice, copaganda does. If a disproportionate number of articles about the police engaging in “random” acts of kindness pop up in your feed, while stories about police corruption or abuse are suppressed or go uncovered completely, the public perception of the police eventually looks far different than the reality.
If the only image you ever see of cops is them lip-syncing to Bruno Mars, that’s going to affect the way you view the next story you see about police shooting an unarmed Black person.
The police are winning this PR battle and they are using it to fight against the gains of activist groups.
If law enforcement officials are presented to the public as the smiling faces behind viral memes and lip-sync battles while their victims are described as “thugs,” “demons,” and monsters, then the media is doing the work of right-wing reactionaries for them.
However, while an article about Robert Downey Jr. visiting a child dying of leukemia doesn’t have an impact on the public perception of criminal justice, copaganda does. If a disproportionate number of articles about the police engaging in “random” acts of kindness pop up in your feed, while stories about police corruption or abuse are suppressed or go uncovered completely, the public perception of the police eventually looks far different than the reality.
If the only image you ever see of cops is them lip-syncing to Bruno Mars, that’s going to affect the way you view the next story you see about police shooting an unarmed Black person.
The police are winning this PR battle and they are using it to fight against the gains of activist groups.
If law enforcement officials are presented to the public as the smiling faces behind viral memes and lip-sync battles while their victims are described as “thugs,” “demons,” and monsters, then the media is doing the work of right-wing reactionaries for them.
Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter
In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda Rwanda has always been a tightly controlled society, organized like a pyramid from each district up to the top of government. The then-governing party, MRND, had a youth wing called the Interahamwe, which was turned into a militia to carry out the slaughter. Weapons and hit-lists were handed out to local groups, who knew exactly where to find their targets. The Hutu extremists set up a radio station, RTLM, and newspapers which circulated hate propaganda, urging people to "weed out the cockroaches" meaning kill the Tutsis. The names of prominent people to be killed were read out on radio. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26875506 |
NAZI Propaganda;
The Nazis effectively used propaganda to win the support of millions of Germans in a democracy and, later in a dictatorship, to facilitate persecution, war, and ultimately genocide. The stereotypes and images found in Nazi propaganda were not new, but were already familiar to their intended audience. The Nazis were skilled propagandists who used sophisticated advertising techniques and the most current technology of the time to spread their messages. Nazi propaganda played an integral role in advancing the persecution and ultimately the destruction of Europe’s Jews. It incited hatred and fostered a climate of indifference to their fate. Films in particular played an important role in disseminating racial antisemitism, the superiority of German military power, and the intrinsic evil of the enemies as defined by Nazi ideology. Nazi films portrayed Jews as "subhuman" creatures infiltrating Aryan society. For example, The Eternal Jew (1940), directed by Fritz Hippler, portrayed Jews as wandering cultural parasites. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda Nazi Propaganda Shortly after rising to power in 1933, Adolf Hitler created the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP), headed by Joseph Goebbels. Nearly all aspects of German culture were subject to the Propaganda Ministry's control, including films, theater, music, the press, and radio broadcasts. https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/nazi-propaganda-1 |
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Father Patrick Desbois is on a mission across Eastern Europe to find Hitler's hidden killing fields. Before him lies a continent of extermination.
Thousands of eyewitnesses, millions of documents and 15 years of investigating have led him to more than 1,700 execution sites.
Father Desbois: I learned a lot about humanity. I learned everybody can be a killer, anybody can be a victim. I learned that you like to see other people dying in front of you, killed by other people, when you are sure you will not be killed.
It was a dramatic finding: that villagers chose to watch people being lined up and murdered; a revelation he would never have come to were it not for his grandfather Claudius Desbois.
What he learned disturbed him. The killings were spectacles; they took place in broad daylight, in front of entire villages.
Father Desbois: They were fighting to have a good place like for circus.
Lara Logan: There's no way you couldn't have known.
Father Desbois: Not only that, but they were running when they heard when they were killing Jews, to see, to try to catch a coin, to check out your clothes, to take a picture. They wanted to be there.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hidden-holocaust-60-minutes-father-desbois-lara-logan/
Thousands of eyewitnesses, millions of documents and 15 years of investigating have led him to more than 1,700 execution sites.
Father Desbois: I learned a lot about humanity. I learned everybody can be a killer, anybody can be a victim. I learned that you like to see other people dying in front of you, killed by other people, when you are sure you will not be killed.
It was a dramatic finding: that villagers chose to watch people being lined up and murdered; a revelation he would never have come to were it not for his grandfather Claudius Desbois.
What he learned disturbed him. The killings were spectacles; they took place in broad daylight, in front of entire villages.
Father Desbois: They were fighting to have a good place like for circus.
Lara Logan: There's no way you couldn't have known.
Father Desbois: Not only that, but they were running when they heard when they were killing Jews, to see, to try to catch a coin, to check out your clothes, to take a picture. They wanted to be there.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hidden-holocaust-60-minutes-father-desbois-lara-logan/
USA Propaganda
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