Lots of more popular support for ending the embargo on Cuba, and there’s even a UN vote where all countries aside from 5 voted to ending the embargo on Cuba, but there’s very little international support for ending the sanctions on North Korea. Does anyone know why this is? Surely if you want to end sanctions on Cuba, it’s only logical to want to end sanctions on North Korea too?
There hasn’t been as much concentrated propaganda against Cuba in recent years comparatively. There used to be a lot more when it was more an imminent threat to ruling interests in the US.
US agencies probably feel that Cuba is pretty “solved”, and they don’t need to worry about it unless people actually put any effort into organising about it. The UN condemning them every year is not something they particularly care about, so they just let it ride.
Why is propaganda affecting people so much? Why can’t people see it’s lies? That’s what I really want to know
Some part indoctrination with some part apathy, wrapped in self-aggrandisement.
People are raised into the propaganda obviously, and that plays a role but I think it is exacerbated by the fact that people often have no real desire to look into if it’s true or not. That is the more insidious element. Anyone who actually put two minutes of thought into the claim that Koreans push trains to work everyday would realise it can’t possibly be true, but they don’t put those two minutes in. If they think about it at all, they just go “Oh, North Korea is so crazy, look at them. lol”. They’d much rather have a crazy mystery country to meme about AND to consider themselves better than. They get to feel superior while pretending to be empathetic to an oppressed people.
A lot of liberals are very eager to feel superior to a marginalized people while simultaneously pretending like they care. Propaganda that feeds into that is unlikely to be questioned because they actively want it to be true.