Yeah this is widely applied. From ag-gag laws that hide the reality of animal torture/murder to the killing of journalists in palestine.
People in the USA are constantly shielded from the reality of their “culture”.
Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms
zrst@lemmy.cif.su 1 day agoIt’s all about controlling how people see the world.
If we’re only exposed to “disney, safe for china” media, then that’s all people will think the world consists of.
They (people richer than us) don’t want us seeing the reality of guns, only their carefully curated fantasies.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I agree with this viscerally.
A lot of people are expressing sympathy for the people in the Kirk crowd, but honestly I think it might be a good thing for them — to see first hand what Kirk and the Republican rhetoric is actually advocating for. Maybe it’ll snap them out of the fantasies they have of culling “undesirables”.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If they are mentally capable of making the connection between the things he advocated for, and those things happening directly to him.
frunch@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
My guess: they’ll use this as their latest example of the “violent left” without evidence, as is tradition