Shams Ur Rehman Alavi
www.asiantribune.net
Propagandists spread a lie, keep repeating it. A section that has power to spread narrative and also has a gang of influencers who can push the propaganda, will repeat it, day & night.
Soon, a situation comes when it becomes so common that no one dares to even ask, ‘where is data to support this argument or the basis of this claim?’.
“Forget data”, ”we don’t care about it, “we know its true, we say it”, come the replies. Germany then, Britain now?
This question has come up due to the ongoing wave of hatred against immigrants that has been fuelled by a section of ‘influencers’ on social media platforms.
Actually, any false or wild claim can be made mainstream, if you own the press or have stronger presence in newsrooms [media houses] than others or you have alliance with xenophobes with millions of followers who can share a message, again and again, like maniacs.
Propaganda makes people believe the conspiracy theories. For example, the cunning among propagandists, will take, for example 25-50 out of 10,000 crimes, now use the images of these 25-50 cases, alternatively and again and again, one each day.
It will be two months before first photo repeats. But these few weeks or a couple of months are enough to manufacture a ‘hate wave’.
Each time, claim that this The rage is built each and every day—level of anger and hate goes up, dangerously. Especially, it happens when celebrities or some politicians with huge following or a big personality associated with a major social media platform, become part of this propaganda.
The message goes that if a man accused belongs to this race and hence all members of this race are bad. They do it with a clear hateful aim and hence the plan succeeds. Though truth could be far from it.
Further, they do what a section of ‘society’ wants to hear too [we are great, ;they; are bad] & go on to suppress info about incidents that are far more but don’t fit in the scheme of things of the propagandists.
Even, the media men get affected by the trend, as media too needs eyeballs and sensationalism sells. They make majority feel insecure and instill sense of fear.
Ask them to share official record of any major crime–all murders or all rapes in a place in a year or six months along with names of all the accused or list of all serial killers. But, they won’t share this basic info that is needed for any analysis, if indeed race or region would be used to generalize & label all people of entire section as ‘opponents’.
EVIL STRATEGY: Repeating a wild claim, selectively picking data with the intent to misuse and misinform masses, is a style that affects the sanest people & a lie almost becomes the truth.
The method has been used by Nazis in the past and happens in other parts of the world too. Nations have suffered.
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