Since the early twentieth century, Western society has been in the grip of a culture of repudiation – rejecting one by one the institutions, offices, traditions and achievements of the past, while having often little but sentimental emptiness with which to replace them.
— Roger Scruton
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Framing and context are very important when setting up a narrative. Just ask CNN, the most distrusted name in “News.†They’re experts at this particular propaganda technique.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 at 4:01 am and is filed under Politics.
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Hard to believe, but Abraham Lincoln, often called the Great Emancipator, is now apparently being targeted by some portion of the feral thugs of the #BlackLivesMatter cells. OK, not that hard to believe. He was, after all, allegedly White and, therefore, racist insofar as that sort are concerned.
Sick, twisted, deranged, but not something any American can really be surprised by anymore.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 at 1:47 pm and is filed under Politics, Society.
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