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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="">On the subject of micro-targeted propaganda, a few years ago, there was a lot of chatter about something called "critical race theory". </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="">The phrase caught my attention. I wondered what exactly is critical race theory? What is wrong with it?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="">In the news media there were many people repeating, "critical race theory BAD". No one attempting to explain (to me) what it was or why it was bad. I eventually concluded the an assortment of bigots just wanted to have a chorus chanting the phrase. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="">More recently "woke" has taken over the shouting. Again, its just a word to which certain people have been brainwashed to repeat.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><br></div>
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On Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 12:31:30 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Steve Litt (slitt@troubleshooters.com):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Ruben, assuming you vote Republican, Rick just thoroughly put you in<br clear="none">> your place. Anti-Jewish talk and actions increased tremendously after<br clear="none">> Trump took office (as did bigotry against other minority groups).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Oh, by the way, do you _seriously_ think Ruben hasn't ever heard _that_<br clear="none">before?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">After all the history of the past eight or so years, do you _really_ not<br clear="none">understand how micro-targeted propaganda works? Cambridge Analytica and<br clear="none">its successors?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That gentleman is someone, one among many, whose emotional hot buttons<br clear="none">have been heavily manipulated by moneyed state and commercial interests,<br clear="none">who had those hot buttons profiled via software study of his social<br clear="none">graph and indicated likes and dislikes, and documented for tactical<br clear="none">pressing on his points of pain, and who also has been continually fed<br clear="none">tailor-made (and non-sequitur) defences against contrary information<br clear="none">(defences I've heard and could now recite, but cannot justify the noise<br clear="none">side-effect on-list).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Just to give the flavour of the thing, many of his defences involve The<br clear="none">Former Guy's son-in-law, and thus, e.g., cheeseburger seders at the White<br clear="none">House or whatnot, and several splashy but meaningless gestures in<br clear="none">relation to the state of Israel. (Yr. humble servant was able to debunk<br clear="none">the gentleman's assertions about said latter gestures quite effectively,<br clear="none">owing to many decades of domain knowledge related to having been a<br clear="none">kibbutz volunteer with ongoing keen interest in Israeli affairs, as was<br clear="none">my father Arthur Moen before me. However, the gentleman simply<br clear="none">summarily denied any truth in what I told him.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Frontal verbal assault against that sort of heavily defended delusional<br clear="none">complex is an instant lose, and I'm disapointed that you imagined that<br clear="none">was even worth your poorly aimed appeal.<div class="ydp9b3faeb6yqt0631648794" id="ydp9b3faeb6yqtfd86407"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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