Language and Propaganda - an example

On another thread here, there was a brief discussion on trolls/trolling. Some of you will be familiar with the "gamergate" story. It's relevant. And it's ugly. I'm not going to do any further on this particular item but I'll toss it in here for educational purposes.

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...............Is this all sounding rather familiar now? Does it remind you of something? If you’re just discovering the world of angry, anonymous online dudes masquerading as victims – hi, come in. Some of us have been here for a while.

The similarities between Gamergate and the far-right online movement, the “alt-right”, are huge, startling and in no way a coincidence. After all, the culture war that began in games now has a senior representative in The White House. As a founder member and former executive chair of Brietbart News, Steve Bannon had a hand in creating media monster Milo Yiannopoulos, who built his fame and Twitter following by supporting and cheerleading Gamergate.

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I'm not "that" interested in "alt-right" information, but I'm not sure why someone would thumb's down your post. Any hows, I see what's happening in our politics is what's going to happen regardless of my preferences. I voted and lost, and that's how **** happens.

It is truly remarkable how little real information is required to persuade small minds that they actually know something that is quite obviouly beyond their reach.

There is some very interesting research going on re the connections between the American MRA (men's rights activist community), gaming community and alt-right. It's been on the go for at least five years. The big common factor? white men.

Fascinating area of research.

ehBeth wrote:

There is some very interesting research going on re the connections between the American MRA (men's rights activist community),

Canadians?

It is truly remarkable how little real information is required to persuade small minds that they actually know something that is quite obviouly beyond their reach.

There is some very interesting research going on re the connections between the American MRA (men's rights activist community), gaming community and alt-right. It's been on the go for at least five years. The big common factor? white men.

(CNN)Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's pick to be national security adviser, praised controversial online provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos one week after the election as "phenomenal" and one of the bravest people he's met.

Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's tech editor, has developed a following from the so-called alt-right, a movement associated with anti-Semitism and racism, by antagonizing progressives through his controversial statements and stunts. He set up a scholarship fund solely for white men, compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan, and said that the United States has "a Muslim problem." He was permanently banned from Twitter earlier this year for inciting racist and sexist attacks on "Ghostbusters" actor Leslie Jones.
Speaking to a gathering of young conservatives at Trump's Washington hotel, Flynn said, "I was with Dinesh D'Souza last night, and the other, for the young audience here, for the young ones here, I mentioned it to a couple of you, I was also with Milo Yiannopoulos," Flynn said at the Young America's Foundation conference. "See, a lot of people in here won't know who he is. I tag him on Twitter, you know, because he's phenomenal individual, and I'm mentioning him tonight because he spoke alongside of me last night to another group of folks."
"He's definitely, he's one of the most different, one of the most brave people that I've ever met. We have different views on different things, but he is deeply, deeply conservative in his views about this country," the retired Army lieutenant general added. "So he is going around this country at the undergraduates, at our colleges and our universities and he fighting for you, for all of the people in here."

Calling all pussy-grabbers[/url] The John Birch crowd were virulently anti-Semitic and though that stuff got shoved down deep, it didn't go away and it is now rising again. The ADL, for example, have noticed who's coming at them presently and it is this "alt-right" contingent.

Now Donald Trump’s first NASA transition team pick is Christopher Shank, a Hill staffer who has said he is unconvinced of a reality that is accepted by the vast majority of climate scientists: that humans are the primary driver of climate change. Shank previously worked for Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican congressman who played a key role in dragging out debates on the basic nature of climate change at a time when the science is settled and action is urgent.

Shank has criticized the type of scientific data NASA regularly releases. As part of a panel in September 2015 at Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, he said, “The rhetoric that’s coming out, the hottest year in history, actually is not backed up by the science — or that the droughts, the fires, the hurricanes, etc., are caused by climate change, but it’s just weather.”

He shrugged off the severity of the climate crisis, criticizing “the rhetoric about, let’s call this climate pollution, which is CO2, which I’m emitting here today.”

It is truly remarkable how little real information is required to persuade small minds that they actually know something that is quite obviouly beyond their reach.

Possibly true, but that doesn't change the case that Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon looks like he just came from being booked for sleeping overnight in somebody's doorway and is on his way to rehab.