Vocabulary matters. You’re pointing to a very similar journalistic/political bias. The most obvious of which is that “Israeli citizen slaughtered by terrorists!” vs. “253 Palestinians lost after strategic Israeli strike”
My favorite is the “Israeli Kidnapped from tank”. Not even kidding.
Describing IDF soldiers and illegal settlers (prisoners of war) as “hostages” vs. Palestinian children, adults, all held without trial by Israel in what could only be described as concentration camps, as “prisoners”.
Once you start noticing this type of passive/active language bias you start to recognize it everywhere.
Some of it is unconscious. A result of living in patriarchy and white supremacy. Most often from normies that have been trained to use that language. But, when it comes to media, it is almost always intentional to manufacture concent for the narrative they are trying to form.
Check out “title history” of news articles and you’ll see in real time how this language adapts to the response of viewers or internal critics trying to ensure the correct conclusion is reached by the reader.
Followup for those interested: read Manufactured Consent. This world has been poisoned by people with evil deep in their hearts and malice on their tongues.
Sort of like how RFK Jr could just dismiss sexual assault allegations from when he was in his mid 40s as being part of being a “very rambunctious youth.”
These absolute garbage individuals literally called rape epic, the double standard is coming from them and the people in their party who excuse it, and then the media normalizes it.
The same neurotransmitter (oxytocin) that causes love, humans to group up, and not be repulsed by incredibly disgusting kids…
Causes (especially for straight men) an intense hatred for literally anyone who you weren’t socialized as a toddler around because they ain’t “us”. They’re “them” or an out-group.
That’s why the right goes so hard against diversity in media, why they lost their shit over Drag story hour.
Because humans are animals, and if we’re not properly socialized as children, shit goes all Lord of the Flies, every time. You want a generation of racist white guys who hate anyone that ain’t straight? You need to shield them completely from everything that’s not that during their formative years, and that’s what the right has been doing.
Everyone wants to pretend they pick random shit, but the people driving it are obscenely wealthy, and even if they’re not smart enough to figure out the psychology, they’ll pay someone to do it.
And for decades neoliberals played I to it, because they’re paid by the same wealthy people to keep everyone divided.
We gave up on the kids, and it’s gonna be impossible to win the lost ones back. We can still teach them critical thinking, but in 40 years when they’re 60, they’re gonna be a new maga. Just from how the normal aging process works. As we lose mental ability, we fall back on ingroup/outgroup.
It might be even much worse if the algorithms are allowed to continue unabated and people do less and less civic-minded things, in person. I think part of the thesis of “Bowling for Columbine” is that starting some time ago, lots and lots of people doing things within their community as groups, in-person has had a steep drop-off.
I think I remember Masons talking about how boomers were almost missing from many of their lodges. Not sure of the reason for that, but due to things like Dan Brown, there was an uptick among Gen X joining up. I still think it’s probably way down for community groups of all kinds, generation after generation.
At least boomers are the ones still showing up to many in-person things. I don’t know what the civic engagement is for Gen X and younger…also, the boomers had a lot of fantastic ideas, some of the first to really go mainstream was with their generation. I think many of them were some of the first to be socialized in the broader sense, too. It’s just that Ronnie Raygunism came along and started building things like Faux and hate radio to capture that demo in particular…but I’m not fooled by the common trope of the boomer stereotype we keep seeing and blaming it all on them. I think that’s overlooking a lot by using a convenient scapegoat, especially now that most of the Silent Generation is disappearing, and nearly all (?) of the Greatest Generation is gone.
This is why I believe that building up community spaces is truly the way forward.
Mutual aid is the foundation of society, but we Americans have let that part of our culture deteriorate and instead promoted the “self-made individual” as the heroic ideal.
Although it doesn’t seem vital, promoting pro-social spaces is critical to getting people to engage with their community and expand the “tribe” to include more degrees of separation.
I’ve often wondered about the physical spaces of churches - not the mega-churches, I’m talking about the ones that mostly seem to be sitting empty, as xtianity is dwindling in this country.
I wonder about some kind of mass movement that could be turned to using those spaces for more and more civic and secular activities that are not affiliated with the church (but maybe find some way to offset the costs of the church - pay some nominal rental fee, etc) set up as a neutral meeting ground.
Things like maker spaces, meetups of all kinds (think meetup.com), game nights, etc. Ideally, every day/night of the week not already reserved for something in the church.
Men 18-40 spouting racist, bigoted, and antisemitic things are “young boys”.
However, when it’s girls, minors, that are sexually assaulted, they are “young women.”
That really is quite the uncomfortable double standard.
Until they get older and get a job where they need to be taken seriously. Then they’ll transition to girls again.
Vocabulary matters. You’re pointing to a very similar journalistic/political bias. The most obvious of which is that “Israeli citizen slaughtered by terrorists!” vs. “253 Palestinians lost after strategic Israeli strike”
My favorite is the “Israeli Kidnapped from tank”. Not even kidding.
Describing IDF soldiers and illegal settlers (prisoners of war) as “hostages” vs. Palestinian children, adults, all held without trial by Israel in what could only be described as concentration camps, as “prisoners”.
Once you start noticing this type of passive/active language bias you start to recognize it everywhere.
Some of it is unconscious. A result of living in patriarchy and white supremacy. Most often from normies that have been trained to use that language. But, when it comes to media, it is almost always intentional to manufacture concent for the narrative they are trying to form.
Check out “title history” of news articles and you’ll see in real time how this language adapts to the response of viewers or internal critics trying to ensure the correct conclusion is reached by the reader.
Followup for those interested: read Manufactured Consent. This world has been poisoned by people with evil deep in their hearts and malice on their tongues.
When you have two major political parties and both are politically Right Wing, Manufactured Consent starts to feel normal to people.
I think it was 24-40, not 18. Soo yeah.
Sort of like how RFK Jr could just dismiss sexual assault allegations from when he was in his mid 40s as being part of being a “very rambunctious youth.”
These absolute garbage individuals literally called rape epic, the double standard is coming from them and the people in their party who excuse it, and then the media normalizes it.
Is evolution working as intended…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3029708/
The same neurotransmitter (oxytocin) that causes love, humans to group up, and not be repulsed by incredibly disgusting kids…
Causes (especially for straight men) an intense hatred for literally anyone who you weren’t socialized as a toddler around because they ain’t “us”. They’re “them” or an out-group.
That’s why the right goes so hard against diversity in media, why they lost their shit over Drag story hour.
Because humans are animals, and if we’re not properly socialized as children, shit goes all Lord of the Flies, every time. You want a generation of racist white guys who hate anyone that ain’t straight? You need to shield them completely from everything that’s not that during their formative years, and that’s what the right has been doing.
Everyone wants to pretend they pick random shit, but the people driving it are obscenely wealthy, and even if they’re not smart enough to figure out the psychology, they’ll pay someone to do it.
And for decades neoliberals played I to it, because they’re paid by the same wealthy people to keep everyone divided.
We gave up on the kids, and it’s gonna be impossible to win the lost ones back. We can still teach them critical thinking, but in 40 years when they’re 60, they’re gonna be a new maga. Just from how the normal aging process works. As we lose mental ability, we fall back on ingroup/outgroup.
Gen alpha is a boomer timebomb waiting to happen…
It might be even much worse if the algorithms are allowed to continue unabated and people do less and less civic-minded things, in person. I think part of the thesis of “Bowling for Columbine” is that starting some time ago, lots and lots of people doing things within their community as groups, in-person has had a steep drop-off.
I think I remember Masons talking about how boomers were almost missing from many of their lodges. Not sure of the reason for that, but due to things like Dan Brown, there was an uptick among Gen X joining up. I still think it’s probably way down for community groups of all kinds, generation after generation.
At least boomers are the ones still showing up to many in-person things. I don’t know what the civic engagement is for Gen X and younger…also, the boomers had a lot of fantastic ideas, some of the first to really go mainstream was with their generation. I think many of them were some of the first to be socialized in the broader sense, too. It’s just that Ronnie Raygunism came along and started building things like Faux and hate radio to capture that demo in particular…but I’m not fooled by the common trope of the boomer stereotype we keep seeing and blaming it all on them. I think that’s overlooking a lot by using a convenient scapegoat, especially now that most of the Silent Generation is disappearing, and nearly all (?) of the Greatest Generation is gone.
This is why I believe that building up community spaces is truly the way forward.
Mutual aid is the foundation of society, but we Americans have let that part of our culture deteriorate and instead promoted the “self-made individual” as the heroic ideal.
Although it doesn’t seem vital, promoting pro-social spaces is critical to getting people to engage with their community and expand the “tribe” to include more degrees of separation.
I’ve often wondered about the physical spaces of churches - not the mega-churches, I’m talking about the ones that mostly seem to be sitting empty, as xtianity is dwindling in this country.
I wonder about some kind of mass movement that could be turned to using those spaces for more and more civic and secular activities that are not affiliated with the church (but maybe find some way to offset the costs of the church - pay some nominal rental fee, etc) set up as a neutral meeting ground.
Things like maker spaces, meetups of all kinds (think meetup.com), game nights, etc. Ideally, every day/night of the week not already reserved for something in the church.
Reagan was a product of the newly established Southern Strategy, which has turned out to be very successful in its goals.