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the-fallen-blue:shanneibh:aqueerkettleofish:jenniferrpovey:aqueerkettleofish:jenniferrpovey:sazandorable:There’s a French BD/comic series currently being published about her!I actually had heard of her, but thanks for the reminder!Propaganda. Mind you, everything about Irena Sendler listed here is true, but the original post isn’t about her. The entire point of the post is this:“In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show about global warming.”Three very subtle sentences. The first one? Nobel Peace Prize nominees are secret for fifty years. So, there is no way that the author of the original post could know that. The second? Actually true. Irena Sendler did not win a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. The third is also false. Al Gore and the IPCC were jointly awarded the prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” Not just for An Inconvenient Truth. (Gore did, however, win an Oscar for a slideshow about Climate Change.)This was not written to raise up Irena Sendler. This was written to tear down Al Gore. The hidden message is “Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize is illigitemate.”And THAT is how propaganda works.Good point. (I’m not a huge fan of Al Gore, but good catch).I go back and forth on Gore, but given that we are about to get DELUGED with propaganda from every possible direction– and it’s not like it’s not already going on– I like to take opportunities to show people how to spot it. :DI spotted the dig at Al Gore’s Nobel prize and thought wtf why was that necessary in this otherwise very cool post?It worked quite well, too, judging by the notes, and the fact that several years later I still see uncommented reblogs of it float across my dash.Any post that starts out like “I bet you’ve never heard of this person, You Know Why” is already intensely suspicious; that’s a #1 trick of psyops to get you angry and frustrated and counterproductive, even when the post is ostensibly about celebrating someone for being cool. This is a very mild, unaccusatory version of that, though, just “you probably don’t remember,” which isn’t aggressive right out of the gate, so, alright, keep going. The swipe at an unrelated social justice issue at the end is your second marker, and where the writer shows their hand, even if you don’t know anything about the way the Nobel Prize is chosen at all: it is 100% You Know Why, changing the focus of the story to outrage rather than honoring, and framing the lefty concern of “maybe stop killing the fucking planet, particularly on behalf of the global South who have less responsibility for or recourse against climate change” as a froofy Ivory Tower white male nonsense idea that’s in direct competition with the lefty concern of marginalized Jewish people and their marginalized female allies. Psyops love to pit one lefty priority against others, there is no easier way to get a lefty to abandon a cause than to suggest it might possibly be hurtful to another lefty cause in some way, and they know it. Like, this post should make you angry, but not at Al Gore or the Nobel Prize committe or some vague “establishment” for valuing one attempt to be a good citizen of the world over another. It should make you angry at whatever shitticket had the audacity to try to weaponize Irena Sendler’s story and heroism against exactly the kind of marginalized people she risked her life for. -- source link