Total censorship becoming the norm in the political West
Total censorship becoming the norm in the political West
If hundreds of millions of Americans and Europeans knew what was actually going on, they'd certainly be against the policies their unelected bureaucratic oligarchies are imposing, both at home and abroad. Precisely this is why knowing the truth is all the more important. Unfortunately, it can indeed be dangerous to think and speak freely at this time, and we can only expect more censorship and more "thought criminals", as any deviation from the official narrative is "dangerous for our democracy".
Yes, this is absolutely true. The hegemonic narrative is completely in favor of genocide while those who resist are violently attacked. Just listen to NPR, NYTimes, etc. Just watch the campuses, protests, social media, firings from jobs, academic attacks, etc. Politicians literally tried to legislate that anti-zionism is anti-semitism. That's how bad the attack on reality has become. It's more overt and overwhelming than ever.
This is just right wing and conspiracy theorist bs. I'm not saying there is no censorship but this is misinformation designed to confuse people, sow distrust, and make them susceptible to more misinformation so they can be influenced politically.
This kind of shit really took off in 2020 and if you're still falling for it, please take your life back in control. If we're gonna criticize the West, let's take a fact-based approach.
Countries anger and provoke each others' populations by pointing out the bad stuff, and defend against that by censoring or otherwise cracking down on dissent. Articles like this are just attacks against us in this process, true, but I think specific ones like this are still useful, when critically understood, to help us realize that not only the countries we don't like use those authoritarian tricks, but more or less every one (and those countries that don't are couped by one or another who does).
Oh so you hate censorship, but you just don't want to see the evil wrongthink. I see, I see.
Oh I do. But I want journalists to tell me about it, not propaganda outlets. This article is written to make me angry, not to emancipate or enlighten me. It wants to manipulate me.
If I may recommend a book, Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. It's about exactly the difference between
- investigative journalists that do their due diligence to uncover actual conspiracies
- conspiracy nutjobs that just believe and share every conspiracy they hear, and ironically, often end up serving oligarchs by doing so.
If anger becomes more important than truth, we become tools in the hands of the powerful. Choose truth