Most propaganda is aimed at neurotypical wiring. We are out of tune with it, that gives us a measure of protection.
It’s one of the worries I have with AI. While I think we are more protected from propaganda than most (since we constantly want to poke at the crack in a story), we are not immune. It’s perfectly possible to shape it to effect us. They just haven’t bothered, since we are a small target. AI makes that a lot easier to do, so we will see more of it.
I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance because I was hyperfixated on the Eragon books and it seemed too similar to swearing loyalty to Galbatorix.
it’s literal brainwashing. Americans laugh at the NK people having to praise Dear Daddy, but then every morning in school, they cite the pledge of allegiance. Why would you want to be allied with one of the worst countries in modern history? Fuck that.
When I was in the third grade, I had a teacher tell me it was okay we pushed the natives off the land because we made more efficient use of it, and could therefore carry a greater population.
In the previous grade the teacher passed around a worksheet, and we had to choose which jobs were most suited to what gender.
Oh what a glorious whitebread bublefuck town I grew up in!
What the hell? Didn’t that teacher got fired or anything?
Fuck no. Teachers are in such short supply that they aren’t looking for reasons to fire them, just pay them less.
Besides, every state creates their own curriculum. It’s possible that’s the state’s official take on the Native American Genocide. After all, for over 150 years, southern schools have been teaching that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about the states rights to decide their own fates, without interference from the aggressive north. They teach this despite the evidence of their own state constitutions of the era, which all mention the protection of slavery right at the beginning, as well as the Confederate “Declaration of Independence,” which puts the blame squarely on Slavery. They’ve spent 150 years OFFICIALLY teaching an alternative lie.
So that Native America explanation might well be an official government position in your state.
Most likely that teacher is the wife of the pastor or sister of the mayor or some shit and thus invulnerable
My second grade teacher taught us the civil war was because of a disagreement over state’s rights.
The same teacher marked me and a few other students down for completing a subtraction assignment using negative numbers. She explained we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn’t do it.
Edit: I forgot one! My third grade teacher marked me down for not knowing how much a hen weighed. It wasn’t a joke. Apparently there was a rule of thumb for estimating chicken weight. Any kids who weren’t raised on a farm missed the question.
we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn’t do it.
Is this a US specific thing? In our schools, they taught us stuff, then took a test to see how much of it got inside our head. I can’t imagine a test having a question about a topic which is not taught yet. It feels like straight up bullying by the system. We send kids to school to learn things, not to get bullied for not knowing things they haven’t even been taught yet.
I was raised in an exceedingly rural area of an already rural state. My school district was rated amongst the worst in the nation, so my experience was more indicative of the worst 1980s US had to offer. It was bad then, but not usually that bad.
She explained we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn’t do it.
That is astonishing.
The most incredible case of teacher malpractice I’ve ever heard of, came from my son. He was in college, taking a film class, which is my son’s expertise. He’s a deep film guy, for real. He could literally teach it, so he doesn’t tolerate nonsense from bad film teachers.
So this teacher showed a clip of The Color Purple, and proceeded to criticize all of Stephen Spielberg’s artistic choices, painting him as a hack. Spielberg isn’t my son’s favorite director, but he respects his talent. He doesn’t believe that Spielberg is a hack.
But a stupid conclusion wasn’t the problem. The problem was that the clip the teacher used to illustrate Spielberg’s poor directing, was taken from the terrible remake of it, which wasn’t directed by Spielberg. The teacher criticized Spielberg, using a movie Spielberg hadn’t directed. And it turned out that the teacher hadn’t known there were two versions of The Color Purple, nor that there was a musical, either.
This was in a COLLEGE film class. My son was disgusted, and I thought it was unforgivable, and told him to report the incident, but he didn’t. He just pledged to never waste another course on that professor.
I remember in 7th grade social studies (on the edge of the SF bay area in the 90s for crab godssake) we had to do a little assignment where we made up pros and cons of slavery.
the pros i made up were absolute bullshit “uh maybe the technology was better in the states than africa so even with slavery quality of life improved? that doesn’t sound right but maybe i don’t know” racist fucking ass shit turd bull fuck assignment.
sorry i’m like 10 years behind on my swears i got some catching up to do
I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, but pros to slavery?? jfc.
yeah like can you help me think up some swears i’m really tired comrade
Jizztrap. Fuck-wit, -stick, -stain. Frozen tampon popsicle Barbara Streisand!
my mom didn’t want me playing pokemon because it “taught evolution”
Its weird cuz evolution in Pokemon is more akin to metamorposes or even just basic puberty except theres sometimes 1 extra step XD
this was not lost on little ol gradeschool me
How fun would it be to have an entirely breeding focused game of Pokemon that was about evolution, though? You want an ivysaur? Selectively breed these bulbasaurs that kind of look more like an ivysaur!
So that’s why my fifth grade teacher hated me. Because I was too smart for her lazy bullshit lessons. 😂
Did anyone else ace the assignments without paying any attention to the lectures?
I feel bad that I wore the free D.A.R.E. propaganda shirts in school because my family was too poor to get me decent clothing.
Naw. Wear that shit with pride, then take a Snoop-level rip from a bong.
Don’t feel bad for doing it out of necessity.
Don’t.
I know a lot of adults that wore them ironically, so maybe you were just ahead of your time.
Church alone does more brainwashing than any secular source
God it’s funny when your brain not working right accidentally prevents certain issues. I’m immune to getting addicted to MMOs, my brain can’t handle the slow dopamine distribution.
Bullshit. There’s more propaganda online.
Now. There wasn’t always an online. Even once there was, back in my day, sonny, it wasn’t always filled with inescapable propaganda. That all started in the 2010s.
Before that you would get some stupid ass chain email from your weird uncle and be like “does he really think I’m reading this bullshit?” lulz
I also tied onions around my belt.
I remember the internet before Trump won in 2016. It was a different place.
