Fogdog
Well-Known Member
We saw it when they claimed BLM protesters were "burning down our cities" or when Portland ANTIFA stood against White Nationalists when they tried to march in their city's streets carrying the flags of White Nationalist groups and even flags with NAZI swastikas. This thread is about all of their propaganda but will begin with the one they are targeting now. That being protests of Israel's war crimes in Gaza.
Propaganda from the right:
The message: Anti-Semitic protesters are violently invading campuses across the country and something must be done to stop them.
What I saw when I watched the video: Protests on campuses are scaring some people and upsetting others. If you simply listen to the right wing echo chamber, you'd think colleges are under assault from Muslim boogey men. Were the protests scary? Undoubtedly they were. Protests are supposed to be disruptive. Some people did things that caused them to be arrested. Some of them might face charges and convictions for things they did if they broke laws. But what I saw were protests, not an assault on either the Jewish people, our schools, our way of life and were not even violent.
Protests like these may not even be a very productive way to gain public sympathy. Studies show protest marches like these create negative feelings against the marchers and by extension, their cause. But that's not the point of this post. It's about how right wing propaganda is distorting the news for political effect/
To counter the 700 Club's Christian Broadcast Network's pearl clutching over campus protests scaring some students, this was broadcast on Morning Edition by National Public Radio:
Debbie Betcher brings a completely different view of what's going on. She tells us that the protest marches are neither the violent show that the 700 club and their ilk say they are, nor are they the whole story. Amid the protest marches that are part of this country's legacy of the 1A in our Constitution, are discussions and gatherings where Pro Israel and Pro Palestinian groups are joined in an effort to come to an understanding.
Propaganda from the right:
The message: Anti-Semitic protesters are violently invading campuses across the country and something must be done to stop them.
What I saw when I watched the video: Protests on campuses are scaring some people and upsetting others. If you simply listen to the right wing echo chamber, you'd think colleges are under assault from Muslim boogey men. Were the protests scary? Undoubtedly they were. Protests are supposed to be disruptive. Some people did things that caused them to be arrested. Some of them might face charges and convictions for things they did if they broke laws. But what I saw were protests, not an assault on either the Jewish people, our schools, our way of life and were not even violent.
Protests like these may not even be a very productive way to gain public sympathy. Studies show protest marches like these create negative feelings against the marchers and by extension, their cause. But that's not the point of this post. It's about how right wing propaganda is distorting the news for political effect/
To counter the 700 Club's Christian Broadcast Network's pearl clutching over campus protests scaring some students, this was broadcast on Morning Edition by National Public Radio:
Debbie Betcher brings a completely different view of what's going on. She tells us that the protest marches are neither the violent show that the 700 club and their ilk say they are, nor are they the whole story. Amid the protest marches that are part of this country's legacy of the 1A in our Constitution, are discussions and gatherings where Pro Israel and Pro Palestinian groups are joined in an effort to come to an understanding.
