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POV: It's January 19th (lemmy.world)

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 16 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

Dude is just arguing semantics, that “propaganda” necessarily has to be a misleading message in favor of its sender.

Of course, tailoring of information by omission is also propaganda.

[–] Prunebutt 0 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

My point is that propaganda is not necessarily evil. I dislike propaganda from the CCP as much as the next non-tankie. But claiming "this platform is spreading propaganda, therefore evil" is ignorant as best and condoning the other imperialist propaganda at worst.

Know it's from China and don't believe anything Tiktok says on the CCP. Done.

I happen to like the Palestine propaganda on Tiktok and dislike the imperial core censoring dissidents, that's all.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

When's its not evil it's call advertising, and that's still fucking evil.

[–] Prunebutt 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, it's the other way around: Propaganda is trying to influence one's political beliefs. Most news is propaganda, political memes are propaganda, "go vote!" signs are propaganda, uncle Sam is from propaganda, etc.

I'm talking about the neutral definition. From Wikipedia:

Beginning in the twentieth century, the English term propaganda became associated with a manipulative approach, but historically, propaganda had been a neutral descriptive term of any material that promotes certain opinions or ideologies "Ideology".

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure buddy happy starday and have fun at work lunar day tomorrow.

[–] Prunebutt 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, if Wikipedia is wrong for you, then ok, I guess?

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe it's more of your propaganda?

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