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Alison Bevege's avatar

Excellent observation. They invent a boogeyman in this case "anti-vaxxer" or on Australia day, fake "neo-Nazis", to create a demon that you will be afraid to be associated with.

Then they use the shame of association with the demon to keep you silent

They also love to elide reasonable opposition with tinfoil-hattery. This is a tried and tested method in corporate media especially, to show how thorough they are that they got 3 perspectives.

Eg: Dr Norman Swann says gene-vaccines are good. But Dr Philip Altman and Alex Jones of Infowars say they are bad.

That way you've equated Dr Altman with Alex Jones, and both rubbished the position as well as the good doctor.

Then you can just talk about what Alex Jones exaggerated without the reasoned data from Dr Altman.

(No disrespect to Alex Jones who is a highly entertaining commentator)

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Doug Youngman's avatar

I remember in '07 in Portland, OR - after witnessing local news (sic) segments on the "self-organizing" Anarchy Marches television programming weeks prior - I was curious enough to go see what it was all about. I left the disgusting charade sick to my stomach - after I realised the black clothed black-flag-waving masked 'anarachists' were wearing the same police issued boots as the PPB. The horror of it all.

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