You don't understand!!! China and Russia are the worst countries on Earth and nothing good ever happens in themm!!!! /j (USAmericans are so fucking tiring 🙄🤦)
Yea which is why a lot of westerners have completely lost the plot on the meaning of propaganda, a big example being japan’s deliberate use of its soft power to sweep its extensive history of war crimes under the rug
To clarify, governments using its citizens as propaganda is not the same as citizens inadvertently being spokespersons for it, because if that were the case, something like me stating that singapore is a very safe country and showing an example would also be propaganda even though it’s true
It could absolutely be seen and used in that way but so can anything that anyone says about their country
Ideally people should have enough media literacy to understand the nuances of this but I think that’s a futile wish 🥲 People are always too eager to demonize the “other”
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at this point with the way that people label normal chinese people posting normal things as propaganda
i think anything that anyone posts ever must also be propaganda
i am propaganda
jesus omg i need sleep
That, and framing - framing is probably the 80 in the 80/20 of communication
Which has clearly been working
Ideally people should have enough media literacy to understand the nuances of this but I think that’s a futile wish 🥲 People are always too eager to demonize the “other”