I ran across this Michael Malice where he interviews Bret Weinstein to discuss a tactic commonly used by the mainstream media to discredit a foe before they even discuss that person’s ideas. I call it “pre-emptive stigmatization”. We see it used to tag conservatives as “far-right” or RFK as a “conspiracy theorist”, which sets the stage for the consequent attempt to demolish their reputation.
As Malice says, “…as soon as I can create the impression that someone’s a ‘them’… I don’t need to listen to anything that they have to say because they’re not us…they’re the bad guys…We see this very often with corporate journalists…they’ll say ‘Joe Rogan, a podcaster with a history of transphobic jokes’, so before you even get into any information I the journalist am telling the reader he’s a ‘them’… this guy’s trouble… I’ve already pre- stigmatized him and once you see that they do this it’s pervasive and it’s definition by non-essentials and definition by stigma…”
The right is just as guilty, Dennis, especially in Canada.
You aholes call those who rail against seat-belt, gun and helmet laws as “others” or “them.”
When this site actually comes out in favor of gun rights and against seat-belt laws, let me know. Until then, you clowns are just another bunch of establishment shills.
“You aholes call those who”
those who you call aholes don’t give a crap
yeahwell, you just demonstrated the failure of having a real conversation. Who’s the a hole, now, eh, bro?
Oh, and “seat belt” laws?! Try harder to make a salient point. You know, like positing the relentless erosion of our fundamental rights, which include whether or not to deploy a fooking seat belt down on the farm.
Educate your own self, you shill.
I can’t keep up with the changes in the UNME screen name.
Bret is a talkoholic.
Yup. Tiresome academic is our Bret.
The Canadian legacy media uses this technique all the time. It’s the “right wing Fraser Institute” but its just the “Centre for Policy Alternates” when its the government funded and leftist one of “theirs”.
It’s basics of propaganda. It can said in the intro section, often in the trailer, too.
It also works if you don’t pay attention.
The UK and most of the other Euro media do it all the time as well.
I have commented elsewhere on this.
They only use the label far right not right or centre-right. But at the same time they use extreme left,left and centre-left.
Ha! Not in Europe. Parties that are outight communist are only designated by the party name, no adjectives at all. And what used to be the far right has become the ultra right.
such champions of the truth. so proud what they do to push an agenda instead.
And … Matt Gaetz is a suspected sex trafficking sex offender … under the House Ethics Committee Investigation …
ABC News LITERALLY said Gaetz traveled … “across State borders” … with adult women (a detail added 3 sentences later)! Ohhhhhhhh mommma … Gaetz took a flight … with a a grown woman … from Florida to New York!!! The Horror … The Horror.
… and they HAD SEX in NYC!!!! Ohhhhhhhhh mommmmaaaaaaa
“… and they HAD SEX in NYC!!!! Ohhhhhhhhh mommmmaaaaaaa”
Isn’t that illegal??
😉
… and ABC “News” claimed Gaetz PAID for their flights, Dinner, Hotel, and a Broadway Show (Pretty Woman) … in exchange for sex.
So, let me recap … ABC News is acknowledging some women are “Dinner Whores” … they’ll let a wealthy (sorta) politician grab them by their pu$$y … in exchange for Dinner+. ABC News has really come full circle.
And NOW they’re preemptively stigmatizing Sean Duffy … Trump’s pick to replace the chest-feeding outgoing Transportation Sec.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14103751/sean-duffy-transportation-secretary-tv-past-trump-cabinet-pick.html
Uh … excuse me … but Sean Duffy is an Attorney … was a County DA in Wisc. … and served two terms in the Wisc. House of Representatives. And all the media can come up with is MTV Real World … where young ADULTS have sex with one another? For MTV’s prurient fun and profit? And that Duffy is a good looking dude who had no trouble getting women to drop their panties, eh Mayor chest feeder LGBTQueer?
Why didn’t the media tell us how many bums Pete Buttigeg entered ? No, I cannot LOATHE the media any more
Bret is trying to rationalize why a carpenter is smarter, and more useful than, an academic.
IQ is what narrow fools use to safeguard tenure,
I know truckers and drywallers who are smarter than tenured professors, and they also have better senses of humour and self aware irony than the Brets of this world. Ivory towered adenoidal voiced fools.
ARRR!
The mainstream media have done this for a long time. Limbaugh labeled it as the “drive-by smear.”