Thread by @KarlBode

the mainstream press is either so inconceivably stupid they still don't know they're being exploited to spread right wing propaganda, or they know and don't care because the controversy is profitable under a broken ad-based journalism model

both are bad

"critical race theory" is a completely fabricated piece of right wing propaganda designed to prey on inherent racism to agitate low information voters, and it's gobsmacking the press still hasn't figured out their role in amplifying it

newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

CRT hysteria was a propaganda op crafted by a right winger who lives like an hour west of me

this has been amply documented for the last two years yet the press STILL amplifies it as a valid policy concern/concept and not the manufactured, contemptuous dogshit that it is

look at this enabling bullshit.

right wingers took a term used to teach about systemic racism in collegiate theory and distorted and propagandized it to scare and agitate low-information idiots. and the press helps them.

Cruz and Hawley types aren't asking these questions in good faith. They're doing it because they know our press is completely broken and will amplify their baseless attacks to an eager and manipulatable public

so instead of headlines about how she's extremely competent, richly experienced, or an historic nomination, you get wave upon wave of stenographed attacks designed to agitate low information rubes

which, if you're a right-wing propagandist, is a huge win

i mean you would think that people whose entire careers and institutions purportedly involve the dissemination of factual information would realize they're being exploited to spread propaganda (especially after Trump), but nope!

https://twitter.com/LarryGlickman/status/1506378431235248131