Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enthusiasts respond that guns don't kill, people do. This truism is too simple to be accurate, but it is interesting because it suggests that killing is a natural instinct for us, and guns are merely the mechanism of choice. Recent propaganda has gone so far as to sanctify handguns because they are less than one-third as likely as shotguns and rifles to cause fatalities...
Many unfortunately influential people, such as the ultra-right-wing demagogues who have the gall to accuse the federal government of plotting the tragedy in Oklahoma City, would call such a plan paternalistic or plain propaganda. Daily political news coverage can't consitute propaganda if the government only sets the floor for the time period of coverage...
...academic pull I have is at Barnard, and--be she fair, four or indifferent--I wouldn't wish that on her. Barnard exemplifies the have your-cake-and-eat-it-too admissions paradox in the worst way. Whole forests of trees are slaughtered yearly to disseminate its admissions propaganda about attending to the particular needs of women, blah blah blah...
That last word rings particularly foul. Jews are not inherently a race; they are adherents to a common religion. Much of Nazi propaganda against Jews--some of which has resurfaced now in European and American anti-Semitic Publications--painted Jews as an inferior race, when what truly distinguishes them is religion. Such propaganda becomes especially irrational when one asks how an 'inferior race' can be behind massive conspiracies to control major industries such as entertainment and banking...
...C.I.A. began to plot a coup against the Guatemalan government. It waged a propaganda campaign that slandered the government as communist, then helped military leaders seize power. The country has been a killing field ruled by the military ever since...