CARD STACKING is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception of an issue by emphasizing one side and repressing another. Such emphasis may be achieved through media bias or the use of one-sided testimonials, or by simply censoring the voices of critics.
NAME-CALLING (or "ad hominem") is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception of an issue by applying insulting or demeaning labels to an individual or group opposing the perception aimed at
BANDWAGON is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception of an issue by exploiting the desire of most people to join the crowd or be on the winning side and avoid winding up on the losing side
TESTIMONIAL & ENDORSEMENT are propaganda techniques that seek to manipulate audience perception of an issue by ordinary people or celebs/community leaders speaking or writing to support that perception
TRANSFER (or ASSOCIATION) is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception of an issue by projecting qualities of a person, entity, object, or value to another to make the second more acceptable or to discredit it
GLITTERING GENERALITIES is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception by using intensely emotionally appealing words so closely associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs that they carry conviction without supporting information or reason
PLAIN FOLKS is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception by making it appear that, say, a political candidate is an ordinary person just like everyone else and that they understand the common person because they are one
STEREOTYPING is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception by stereotyping groups in society
FEAR is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception by making them fearful of something
REPETITIVE (or AD NAUSEAM) is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception by constant repetition
APPEAL TO PREJUDICE is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception by appealing to and exacerbating prejudice
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“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participate in political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of beans, of fish, of flour, of rent, of shoes and of medicine, all depend on political decisions.
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The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted
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and flunky of the national and multinational companies”
- Bertolt Brecht
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The darkness crumbles away.
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet’s poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
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Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
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Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?
What quaver—what heart aghast?
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THREAD
I. F. Stone (1907 – 1989) was a leftwing, progressive US investigative journalist, writer, author
He was fiercely independent
He produced I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953–71), a highly respected and trusted publication
I will post some of his quotes I like in the course of today
“Facts are subversive”
- I. F. Stone
“The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins”
- I.F. Stone
AWAKE! For Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing.