I know better than to ask, but do people actually internalize this? It takes a incredible bias, or well coordinated programing to get this deep.
Ive seen weird NYT articles like this and reading the full text is always surreal. There was one about corruption that basically tried to say that attempts at transparency and anti corruption were only unintentionally humiliating the party because a couple of people online said something like that. The mindset is so bizarre and I’m baffled that the people who write and read it think it’s hot shit.
Anecdotally, yes. Even me, who is now a tankie, but was always a contrarian used to believe the BS about DPRK as recently as a few years back. This is despite calling bullshit on the propaganda about my own people but then turning around and believing bullshit about others.
There are others who know it’s all lies but then perpetuate it for their class interests. I actually believe this group to be larger than we all think.
In the USA at least we are literally raised to believe this. Parents, school, and then employers, the media and government. Even the most outlandish of things will be uncritically accepted by otherwise generally competent people in these circumstances. Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, even the propagandists.
Welcome to the West, where Chinese astronauts in space is a crime against humanity but we were TOTALLY justified in nuking Japan, apparently.
I know better than to ask, but do people actually internalize this? It takes a incredible bias, or well coordinated programing to get this deep.
Ive seen weird NYT articles like this and reading the full text is always surreal. There was one about corruption that basically tried to say that attempts at transparency and anti corruption were only unintentionally humiliating the party because a couple of people online said something like that. The mindset is so bizarre and I’m baffled that the people who write and read it think it’s hot shit.
Anecdotally, yes. Even me, who is now a tankie, but was always a contrarian used to believe the BS about DPRK as recently as a few years back. This is despite calling bullshit on the propaganda about my own people but then turning around and believing bullshit about others.
There are others who know it’s all lies but then perpetuate it for their class interests. I actually believe this group to be larger than we all think.
In the USA at least we are literally raised to believe this. Parents, school, and then employers, the media and government. Even the most outlandish of things will be uncritically accepted by otherwise generally competent people in these circumstances. Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, even the propagandists.
Welcome to the West, where Chinese astronauts in space is a crime against humanity but we were TOTALLY justified in nuking Japan, apparently.
To American liberals, this kind of stuff is basically their religion
Better to fanatically live in a fictional world than to face the reality that they’re not as superior as they think lol
I believe it