Creating informational fodder for
LoFos can of course strengthen the RW electoral base. OTOH perhaps making their media outlets look even more stupid might encourage metacritical self-reflection; it could of course be perhaps another didactic, "fool's errand", in the hope that the RW can be "reeducated", since enlightenment is a bridge too far in the
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Is RW disinformation like the game of telephone where Richard Nixon may be the original Chinese Whisperer. POTUS's African affinities (sic) interpreted by Fox News experts is not unlike Peter King's one for the IRA. Surprisingly(sic) it is still all about racism and the Other given the game's etymology. It is of course about passive listening as well as confirmation bias among other factors like third person effects. Ultimately is is about the distortion of messages and the application of framing effects complete with triggers.
The present state of #Obola discourse follows those same rules, so here's a sample CT meme to be recontextualized by the RWNJ which we may see reproduced in coming weeks despite the persistence of objectivity and pesky "facts" based in reality. While not a research experiment with all the usual methodological protocols, if it gains traction we'll come back to it to see if the telephonic whisper path can be traced.
Terrorist groups like Boko Haram must somehow be connected to the dispersal of Ebola to the Christian missionary doctors and their return to the US for medical treatment in Southern states and of course the health protocol failures in TX can only come from leftist interests sympathetic to getting ISIS over the Southern border
This is a compilation of roughly 800 actual or suspected FEMA Camp locations. These locations are, or could be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States ...
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Chinese whispers(or telephone in the United States) is a game played around the world, in which one person whispers a message to another, which is passed through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly, and often amusingly, from the one uttered by the first. Reasons for changes include anxiousness or impatience, erroneous corrections, and that some players may deliberately alter what is being said to guarantee a changed message by the end of the line.
The game is often played by children as a party game or in the playground. It is often invoked as a metaphor for cumulative error, especially the inaccuracies as rumours or gossip spread, or, more generally, for the unreliability of human recollection or even oral traditions.
The game is also known as broken telephone, operator, grapevine, whisper down the lane, gossip, don't drink the milk, secret message, the messenger game and pass the message.
Today, the name "Chinese whispers" is said by some to be considered offensive. Historians trace Westerners' use of the word Chinese to denote "confusion" and "incomprehensibility" to the earliest contacts between Europeans and Chinese people in the 1600s, and attribute it to Europeans' inability to understand China's culture and worldview. Using the phrase "Chinese whispers" suggested a belief that the Chinese language itself is not understandable. The more fundamental metonymic use of the name of a foreign language to represent a broader class of situations involving foreign languages or difficulty of understanding a language is also captured in older idioms such as It's all Greek to me!.