The only thing I’d add is an explanation for how information is transferred from one person to another and how truth and veracity can be implied through manipulation to provide credibility.
It’s the use & manipulation of framing.
Explained here in a short clip by George Lakoff:
This link will lead to the longer in-depth review Lakoff delivered as a lecture several years ago. This is part 1 of a 6 part series.
Another option is to read his book.
Science informs us how conservatives use political rhetoric to shape belief & values.
To defeat their efforts, invest the time to understand framing, repetition and targeted rhetoric.
Conservatives are not dumb. They’re reprogramming neural pathways of voters.
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I for one would appreciate if the “shaman’s” defence lawyer was able to prove a targeted campaign to manipulate his thinking was the cause of his apparent break with reality.
It would create widespread public acknowledgement of how the far right is using military grade PSYOPS.
I have a physician of Nigerian descent. He’s the best doctor I’ve ever had in my life. And I’ve had quite a few.
I can’t imagine my physician having to face this kind of BS from a colleague and then a complete minimization of the incident by AHS and the hospital administrators.
How insulting.
Another racially motivated incident white washed as “a joke.” Every racially insensitive action seems to be a joke.
And investigating authorities permit that lame excuse to cover up racist behaviour. It’s so stereotypical it’s ridiculous.
The problem with Ms Krause’s statement is that we learned a backlog of bitumen that Canadian developers create produces humongous profits for American refinery owners.
When Rachel Notley put a temporary limit on oil sands production, the price of oil jumped immediately.
By maintaining current production levels, and a bottlenecked transport system, US producers can manipulate the price they pay for Canadian product, & thus, the royalty rates.
After its refined, oil sands is sold at the same price as Brent Oil standard price back to Canadians and across the globe.
Resulting in astronomical profits for American upstream owners and shareholders.
At the expense of Albertans and the expense of Canadian fuel consumers.
Those who are still fighting for social equality, use of their political agency, acceptance and political change to accommodate their needs don’t have the luxury of privilege.
The rights of the most marginalized are under threat while still being established. Existential threat.
Ignore that threat and you are giving conservatives tacit approval.
Teachers, Administrators and custodians are human beings. Sending your kids to school is putting the lives of those people at risk & beneath your need to work and make a living.
If you want great teachers, maybe putting their lives at risk isn’t the best strategy.
Characteristic of the further left is the desire to view the world through binary thinking. Good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust.
Nuance and grey areas are forbidden. So a fissure has emerged between those who support Palestine and those who defend Israel.
It’s a curiosity to witness those who attempt to impose simplicity onto a complex and complicated situation. You can almost feel the angst this is causing within the progressive camp.
Support Jews who have been persecuted for millennia or Palestinians, indigenous to the region?