Storming Of The Capitol Building

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(01-11-2021, 05:03 PM)Lucidus Wrote: Even more concerning is the utter and total disregard for facts and reality in favor of propaganda and preferred narratives, often fed by purposeful misinformation and nefarious intent. I continue to be disheartened by the increasingly prevalent lack of critical thinking, honest examination and objectivity when it comes to our political discourse and interactions. It almost as if embracing / displaying the very worst of our nature is now a badge of honor --- tribal ignorance masquerading as ideological superiority.

It is not really that "intentional".  Most people spread propaganda because that is all they here on the places they go for nws and information.

The comments you hear about the "main stream media" almost always come from people who never watch ant news source except from the right wing echo chamber.  I lean strongly to the left but i actually watch a lot of Fox news.  So I realize what they are doing when they pull one sentence out of context to try and spread their message.  perfect example was Carlson the other night talking about how the mainstream media "encourages violence and looting" then they post a short clip of Cuomo from CNN saying that protestors "don't have to be polite".  Now I have personally seen Chris Cuomo talk about how unacceptable the violence and looting form BLM protests is.  But FoxNews never shows anything like that.  Instead they take a comment that had nothing to do with endorsing violence and looting and tell their viewers that is what he is doing.  Same thing with comments about "police reform" being sold on Fox as "the left hates the police".

So I don't think Brad was intentionally posting false propaganda.  Instead he was just repeating what he has been told over and over again from the right-wing sources where he gets all his information.  same thing with the people posting here about how they have never heard anyone from the left show any concern for the safety of police.  I could find tons of direct quote from commentators on CNN who showed concern for th safety of police.

When people from the right attack what the left says they are usually attacking what their right wing news source tells them the left is saying.