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News propaganda didn't just fall off a tree magically. Propaganda is common throughout history to gather supports. Fake news didn't just happen on Facebook. M

by yeukhon 10y ago

News propaganda didn't just fall off a tree magically. Propaganda is common throughout history to gather supports. Fake news didn't just happen on Facebook. Mainstream media have been criticized for all forms of malpractices or unfair reporting by misquoting, taking a quote or story out of context, using unauthentic images or using different random parts of a clip to create a story. Is NYT more fair than Fox News? I recently came across a YouTube video called "The Sinter Reason Weed is Illegal" [1]. I am not a historian, but from this video I learned that perhaps the ban of cannabis was perhaps not based on scientific facts at all. The whole ban was just a political move by provoking racism to rally up against the Blacks and the Mexicans. After the 2016 Election, I started to follow a Facebook Page called "Now This Politics" (NTP). Given the page's political nature, most of the stories are about the current administration. I started to get more news stories from Facebook. A few days ago United Airlines was reported to have barred girls from boarding a flight because of their leggings. NTP created a video about the incident. I felt UA was being ridiculous. Legging isn't the most inappropriate dress code. I didn't approve UA's defense. But when I went to the comment section, I started to change my stand on the issue because apparently these girls got their tickets via an employee discount program, for which the ticket holder is subjected to a stricter dress code. While I don't dispute this dress code might be outdated for legging (what about Yoga pants?), NTP's video was able to impose a negative view on me. Yes, the video did include UA's defense statement UA said the employee discount ticket holders are subjected to dress code requirement at the end of the video, but at that point the negativity had already been planted. Now I have to be extra careful not to side with the video creator right away, just because their other videos do make good points exposing the uglinesses of our current government. The fact I agree with them before would mean I am now vulnerable to social influences and perhaps beginning to deindivdiualize in my capacity to distinguishing my own views from others' views.. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlqsdezhhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlqsdezhhk [2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/us/united-airlines-leggings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/us/united-airlines-leggin...

globuous 10y ago
> I learned that perhaps the ban of cannabis was perhaps not based on scientific facts at all. The whole ban was just a political move by provoking racism to rally up against the Blacks and the Mexicans. This is interesting, I didn't know about that. However, I remember a sociology class I took in college. It showed that crack and cocaine fines / jail times were very different from each other (doing crack was legally more Dangerous than doing cocaine). But crack and cocain are pretty much the same thing. The biggest difference is that a few décades ago (I don't know if it's still the case), white people did cocaine and black people did crack. Because crack was cheaper than cocaine. Sad how régulations are made sometimes.

by yeukhon 10y ago

globuous 10y ago

> I learned that perhaps the ban of cannabis was perhaps not based on scientific facts at all. The whole ban was just a political move by provoking racism to rally up against the Blacks and the Mexicans. This is interesting, I didn't know about that. However, I remember a sociology class I took in college. It showed that crack and cocaine fines / jail times were very different from each other (doing crack was legally more Dangerous than doing cocaine). But crack and cocain are pretty much the same thing. The biggest difference is that a few décades ago (I don't know if it's still the case), white people did cocaine and black people did crack. Because crack was cheaper than cocaine. Sad how régulations are made sometimes.