I get that it’s being used as an example and I’m saying your example is either flawed or biased.
The passion and the assumption, the need to tell me stuff you know about insert example as though I challenged it, when I simply mentioned it, without bias, as an example.
This is extremely naive though. By taking two things that are not equal and implying they are is biased. It would be like taking a local gang and comparing them to the Nazis and saying they both have propaganda. The gang uses spray paint tags and the Nazis have a propaganda machine. It’s a false equivalency. Using your logic I could say “Well WW2 both the US and Germany used propaganda.” Yes they both did, but one used it for recruiting while the other used it in the aid of finding and killing minorities. Saying either side would get mad about the other becomes moot when you realize the context of the propaganda.
This is why I have confidence some pro-Russian person is seething ready to go as well and tell me all the stuff they’ve read on their side of news and social media, even though I’m not asking for or even indicating to wanting a discussion or opinions about the bloody Ukraine War.
Yes, I’m sure they are. But again, you are taking a country that has committed war crimes and comparing its actions to a country trying to defend itself and acting like all things are equal. You’re seemingly purposefully ignoring context and reality. I would go so far as to say that implying they are equal is dangerous.
“You are not immune to propaganda.”
And neither are you, no one is. Which is why we need to discuss them and the context around the propaganda. Look into it, and fact check things said. Not act like all propaganda is equal. I would say by you putting them on a level playing field that one side has done its job by discrediting the other and you’ve fallen victim to that.
Mate. Seriously. I called this out as a precursor and you quoted it. I thought you were going to give some insight on better discerning it.
And I thought you would be insightful enough to not look at propaganda through a pinhole.