Post #2484440

2026-05-11 18:34 UTC

This is why I find it very important to read the right and the far right, if you do it enough you&#39;ll start to see the same arguments pop up again now, in different contexts https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-i-learned-from-reading-apartheid-propaganda

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@jake2@kolektiva.social 2026-05-11 18:48

@julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social how i wish i could get that understanding through to the people who once argued at me that there was no reason copies of Mein Kampf should be available for historical research and that it shouldn't be sold anywhere

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@passenger@kolektiva.social 2026-05-12 06:38

@julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social This is why I've argued that people should read documents like the Passing Of The Great Race and the Protocols Of The Learned Elders at school: not because they should believe anything in it (jesus fuck no) but because unless they learn that it is propaganda, and learn to study propaganda in a context where it can be dissected without being persuaded by it, then they run the risk of encountering it in the wild and engaging with it as if it's authentic (which would be very bad.) If you don't know how it works, you won't spot it when it comes back again and again.

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@adritheonly@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 11:21

@julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social I'm afraid I lived through a family like that and never, ever want to hear their side ever again. Thank goodness they forgot I existed fairly early on and left me in the care of my black nanny who taught me how to be human and think for myself.

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