22 Examples of Propaganda Working as Expected
Propaganda is just a part of our daily lives now. We just expect to be bombarded by misinformation on an hourly basis. Most of the time, this...
Published 1 year ago in Wtf
Propaganda is just a part of our daily lives now. We just expect to be bombarded by misinformation on an hourly basis.
Most of the time, this is pretty harmless. Sometimes, though, it rises to the level of damaging propaganda. And here is the propaganda that caused the most damage throughout history!
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Perhaps not the most damaging, but certainly a vile example… when Pope Benedict XVI told the people of sub-Saharan Africa that condoms would actually make the HIV/AIDS crisis worse. This obviously drew extreme criticism from everyone that actually wanted to end/improve the crisis. It is a peak example of one valuing the perpetuation of their superstitious beliefs over the life of their followers. -u/P0ster_Nutbag
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McCarthyism completely trashed the layperson's understanding of the distinction between "socialism" and "communism" (actually it's more of a range) Now welfare and other social programs are often seen as "the slippery slope that will turn the USA into a failure like the USSR," and not "the kind of thing that just about every modern, developed democratic nation has which improves the lives of its citizens" -u/AdvocateSaint
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Greenpeace VS GMOs Some people worked hard to modify rice to have vitamin A so has to help poor communities who did not have proper diets. Greenpeace convinced their governments GMOs are poison so tons of the stuff was burned. Children were going blind and dying and all Greenpeace cared about was the genetic purity of a plant! -u/lemons_of_doubt
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The one I think about the most is back in the 80s in the U.S. We were told constantly how the Japanese were going to rule the world because of their work ethic. Americans gave up a lot of workers' rights and time for their lives. When I finally was able to travel outside of the U.S. I heard about how Americans are workaholics. It dawned on me there was some BS propaganda going on that facilitated the current sh**ty situation in the states. -u/DrippyCheeseDog
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Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent "research" claiming a link between vaccinations and autism for the purposes of selling his own "safe" vaccines. He single handedly set back not just childhood vaccinations (with a resulting unprecidented spike in measles), but fostered an anti-science sentiment that is still bearing rotten fruit in the current COVID pandemic. it's rare that you can point your finger to one person and say "YOU are personally responsible for millions of deaths", yet here we are. -u/McFeely_Smackup
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