RadioRaheem84
21st December 2010, 18:44
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...er-family.html
Bricolage posted this about a military solider who ended up committing murder due to the systemic propaganda he was taught in the military.
The dehumanization techniques are evident in the military but what about the public?
I remember in my transition from right to left politics, I had the hardest time trusting Iraqis who would tell the press about their run ins with the occupying forces. I saw them as lying and aiding terrorists within the country. A lot of my friends, even liberal ones, thought this too.
It was so difficult to see the Iraqis as anything but shifty people, not to be trusted, but also helped in their unknown desire for liberty.
Still, to this day when I watched John Pilger's new documentary The War You Don't See , the lingering doubts about what really went on (freedom fighters or terrorists) still haunt me because of so much pro-war propaganda.
It's truly dehumanizing.
Bricolage posted this about a military solider who ended up committing murder due to the systemic propaganda he was taught in the military.
The dehumanization techniques are evident in the military but what about the public?
I remember in my transition from right to left politics, I had the hardest time trusting Iraqis who would tell the press about their run ins with the occupying forces. I saw them as lying and aiding terrorists within the country. A lot of my friends, even liberal ones, thought this too.
It was so difficult to see the Iraqis as anything but shifty people, not to be trusted, but also helped in their unknown desire for liberty.
Still, to this day when I watched John Pilger's new documentary The War You Don't See , the lingering doubts about what really went on (freedom fighters or terrorists) still haunt me because of so much pro-war propaganda.
It's truly dehumanizing.