The poll you are replying to literally demonstrates that is not the case when people are exposed to and fully aware of the actions that the US military and its allies engage in.
Which is not at all very often at all.
Most are ignorant, and simply follow what they are told.
Which is precisely the point of war propaganda. That’s why this “empathy” seems jarring and out of place. It was always there; Americans aren’t some sort of bloodthirsty boogeymen and the true beliefs and actions of the bourgeoisie disgust them. But when you have been lied to and told the same lies over the course of your life, that is all you can believe.
Yes.
Which is precisely the reason we are here. We must never stop explaining, just as Sankara stated.
So there’s “beliefs” and “true beliefs”. Yet only one of these has real world consequences. It’s cold comfort to the millions killed around the world that the perpetrators don’t truly believe in what they’re doing.
Yes we just never stop explaining, but while our message goes unheeded and unlearned, we must do what we can to protect the victims and condemn the oppressors.
These people have the capacity of free will. They are not shambling automatons waiting for new programming with no autonomy or responsibility. You can choose to characterise the worst atrocities you can think of at people just not having enough information or being manipulated. That does not exonerate them.
Which is not at all very often at all.
Yes.
Which is precisely the point of war propaganda. That’s why this “empathy” seems jarring and out of place. It was always there; Americans aren’t some sort of bloodthirsty boogeymen and the true beliefs and actions of the bourgeoisie disgust them. But when you have been lied to and told the same lies over the course of your life, that is all you can believe.
Which is precisely the reason we are here. We must never stop explaining, just as Sankara stated.
So there’s “beliefs” and “true beliefs”. Yet only one of these has real world consequences. It’s cold comfort to the millions killed around the world that the perpetrators don’t truly believe in what they’re doing.
Yes we just never stop explaining, but while our message goes unheeded and unlearned, we must do what we can to protect the victims and condemn the oppressors.
These people have the capacity of free will. They are not shambling automatons waiting for new programming with no autonomy or responsibility. You can choose to characterise the worst atrocities you can think of at people just not having enough information or being manipulated. That does not exonerate them.