Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to focus on reading Tocqueville when my computer "eep" ed. I lunged for the mouse and clicked open my new e-mail. I could tell from the subject line--"You are a huge f***ing culturally deprived moron"--that this wasn't just a brainless forward or more propaganda from Clinton-Gore...
Curious and curiouser. Had the Communist propaganda about 1956 as the work of "fascist counter-revolutionaries" been right, after all? No: Nagy was not a fascist but a reformist communist, as were many of his followers. There is no doubt, however, that some of the 1956 "freedom fighters" were far to the right of Nagy, and some were probably admirers of Horthy. That is one reason why, in today's Hungary, it has become difficult to regard the 1956 revolution with the uncomplicated enthusiasm of pre-"Change" days. One young woman whose uncle disappeared in the October battles wrote...
Perhaps I had bought into the propaganda surrounding the sophomore integration. I, a student living on the front line formerly known as North House, was hoping to dodge explosive orgo books and in turn assault vicious thesis writers with a semi-automatic barrage of hard-core industrial music. I and the other sophomores were supposed to make a difference. I am saddened by the fact that we have yet to succeed in our effort to overcome our upper-class foes with our lack of collective individuality. In trying to rationalize the state of peace, I developed several hypotheses...
...desperate attempt to convince the reader that his personal judgement is the truth. The claim that Palestinian police officers fired "automatic weapons upon the Israelis who armed them" overlooks the fact that these arms were purchased under the Oslo agreement, and with Palestinian money. The images purveyed by such propaganda upholds the political axiom around which Israeli hawks, and their more poorly informed counterparts in the U.S., mobilize: We have tried peace but we can not/will not trust those who opted to fight back...
...Arab claim about the tunnel was, in fact, a big lie: modern propaganda with medieval resonance. In medieval times, massacres against Jews were often carried out as vengeance for some alleged Jewish desecration of Christianity. How would NPR have covered the blood-libel-inspired massacre of the Jews of Munich in 1286? "Leaders of the massacre claim that the Jews had killed Christian boys and used their blood for religious rituals"? For balance, I suppose, NPR would have added, "The Jews deny this...