Contrasting popular notions of oppression in other countries with American reality
To keep in mind with Propaganda methods and tropes
But what the national witch hunts did was to give such labeling credibility. It enabled the Southern segregationists to tie their kites to a national windstorm. It made it possible for them to pose not as defenders of a corrupt Southern way of life, which they were, but as guardians of the national security and all that was patriotic.
There is no doubt that this had an effect on the movement. I don’t think it affected Blacks very much; it was pretty hard to persuade Black people that their struggle for human rights was some kind of subversive plot. But I think it did affect many white people—frightened away many people who might otherwise have joined the movement, who could have stood up to the physical threats and the economic pressure, who might even have been willing to go to jail and risk their lives, but who could not bear the thought of being called traitors to their country.1
Westies imagine any popular support for an "enemy" leader as dangerous or manufactured, yet fail to acknowledge the fear of being labeled enemy, such as speaking up about Russia Ukraine Conflict
“Several hundreds of millions of people were slaughtered by European empires, and then by the US Empire, in the last several centuries. This holocaust took place in Africa, Asia, what is now known as Latin America, in the Middle East and Oceania, basically everywhere. No alternative system including those of the Soviet Union or China ever came close to the barbarity committed by the West.”
Vltchek, Andre. Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism . PT. Badak Merah Semesta. Kindle Edition.
Most of those opinionated individuals regurgitating a variety of clichés are actually extremely selective in choosing the targets of their rage.
Vltchek, Andre. Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism . PT. Badak Merah Semesta. Kindle Edition.