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> No they didn't. Yes, it's all the Iraqis fault. And I'm sure you sincerely believe that despite it being utterly insane. > Are you suggesting the media, hol
by dnomad 8y ago
> No they didn't.
Yes, it's all the Iraqis fault. And I'm sure you sincerely believe that despite it being utterly insane.
> Are you suggesting the media, hollywood, and universities aren't left-leaning?
Ironically, you've aptly demonstrated the entire point. If you asked this question to most people outside of America (you know, the other 7.3 billion people on the planet) I think many would probably agree that no, American media, Hollywood and universities are not left-leaning at all, not even in the slightest. But in America perception has been so completely warped that it's become a "common-sense truth" that the media is left-leaning. This whole banal game, as Chomsky describes it quite clearly[1], is to use propaganda to create a wholly isolated and controllable alternative reality.
BTW I also have to point out, though I don't give a shit about HN points, the genuinely humorous irony of downvoting these comments. I mean come on.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
- Density 8y agoThe universities are so far left there's a university ethics professor who smashed an alt right protester's skull in with a bike lock. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/05/29/a-man-clobbered-trump-supporters-with-a-bike-lock-the-internet-went-looking-for-him/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/05...
- guelo 8y agoNice anecdote. I have one, the conservative billionaire Koch brothers use donations to force conservative curriculum and the hiring of conservative professors at several universities.
- FeepingCreature 8y agoOh no, a whole several.
- guelo 8y agoThat's more than the anecdote I was responding to.
- sheepmullet 8y ago> despite it being utterly insane. Why is it insane? > If you asked this question to most people outside of America If you asked them if American media, Hollywood and universities were American-left then I think the vast majority would agree. And that's what actually matters. Not what they consider to be left-wing by their own cultural standards.
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