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There is no person with enough agency to have that kind of thing as an end goal. It's effect of a lot of other things, mostly US dominance and globalisation.
by Scarblac 10mo ago
There is no person with enough agency to have that kind of thing as an end goal. It's effect of a lot of other things, mostly US dominance and globalisation.
- potato3732842 10mo agoYou don't need a person. It's just a result of the systems we've set up and how they incentives everyone with any agency to act when they do get to use that agency.
- stickfigure 10mo agoSpecifically, it's Metcalfe's Law.
- nephihaha 10mo agoThere are plenty. Hollywood has massive dominance in the international film industry as does the American music industry. The USA has spent a lot of time and money promoting its culture. It is partly a consequence of the Cold War. But the endgoal is to produce a homogenised world culture. You can see this being pushed by groups such as FIFA and Global Citizen (the name isn't even subtle) in the last few weeks with the lead up to the World Cup, and the repeated use of platitudes like "we are one" and "unite for our future".
- anticodon 10mo ago[flagged]
- jaapz 10mo agoLGBT propaganda... Funny how people who have been gobbling up propaganda about something, always think "the other side" is the one producing the actual propaganda And yes, i see the irony of this statement But some dudes kissing in a movie is not propaganda
- drdeca 10mo agoIsn’t whether or not something is propaganda determined by the intent of those producing or distributing it? If the intent of someone including two men kissing in a movie is to promote approval of homosexual relationships, OR is to promote the idea that men kissing doesn’t imply homosexuality, then that’s propoganda, but if the intent is just “the movie sells better if there’s a scene pandering to yaoi fangirls”, or “the screenwriter found something that happened with two guys they know to be compelling”, then it isn’t propaganda, right?
- jaapz 10mo agoYou're probably right, but my main point was that it's funny that people who have been spoon fed propaganda about something always think the opposite of what they now believe is the actual propaganda Honestly, pretty impressive by the russian government how they are able to do that Then again, in many cultures (even in more tolerant ones like here in the netherlands) there's always somewhere a latent hatred and/or disgust towards LGBT. So maybe it's nit that hard to bring that back to the surface after all
- miroljub 10mo ago[flagged]
- jacquesm 10mo agoWould you believe that in some countries it never happens at all! Overrepresentation compared to what?
- nutjob2 10mo agoSo you believe in quotas in "mass media", so that homosexuals aren't over-represented? Or you just think it's a conspiracy to turn everyone gay? Trying to control the free market of ideas seems a bit oppressive.
- miroljub 10mo ago
- pesus 10mo agoYou being uncomfortable with people different than you does not mean there's a conspiracy.
- anticodon 10mo ago[flagged]
- jaapz 10mo ago"we are one" is not equal to "we are exactly the same" Honestly can't believe I'm out here defending FIFA for god's sake, but it's obvious that they mean everyone should be good to eachother even though we are all different. It has nothing to do with cultural colonisation. There's a lot wrong with FIFA, but trying to get people to hate eachother a little less isn't one of them