Today’s events require us to acknowledge the societal damage done by political and media illiteracy as well as prolonged and coordinated misinformation campaigns by mainstream and/or digital media entities to further a partisan agenda.
We can’t overstate its toxicity.
We can’t overstate its toxicity.
Here we have a guy who has documented himself at Trump rallies for YEARS and drives a van covered in right-wing propaganda and right wingers are still refusing to accept it.
They are staring at a clear blue sky and insisting it’s orange.
They are staring at a clear blue sky and insisting it’s orange.
The echo chambers, the fabricated and demonstrably false websites, videos, memes and articles, the shills on cable and even more dangerous hacks on streaming sites—it led to this. And they still refuse to accept that an objectively toxic product could have any side-effects.
This is a guy who thinks a Holocaust survivor is the root of all evil. Who things advocacy organizations are out to get him.
You cannot simply write this off as “mental illness.”
This is someone who was force-fed garbage for years and acted on it.
You cannot simply write this off as “mental illness.”
This is someone who was force-fed garbage for years and acted on it.
Like clockwork, the right storms in to stigmatize mental illness.
[refuses to acknowledge the guy is on video at multiple trump rallies for the past few years]
NEW STICKERS ON HIS VAN?! DEF FISHY!
NEW STICKERS ON HIS VAN?! DEF FISHY!
