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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy Gay Republican Fox News Watching Friend
His Parents are Republican,
He is totally against Gay marriage. He Hates Rachael Maddow (gay) because Fox News told him to.
He will not watch any other news source because Fox tells him the truth, I'm done trying to figure
this out. Brainwashing your gay child to hate democratic rationalism blows my fucking mind.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)and very awesome looking, but fox news will spew hate against gays,
and gay republicans will bow their heads in shame.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)It's gospel.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)questions anything.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)even with gays
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)ability so see over the edge of the box. They are programmed like a computer and code for the program is faulty.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)families psychologically to the point where they acknowledge that they are gay, but are terrified to express it.
The things that the right wing, and not even the religious right, have done psychologically to the LGBT community is deeply ingrained, and deeply sublimated to their detriment by some.
It's a sad truth.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)the truth, but it is.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)ability so see over the edge of the box. Many are programmed like a computer and the code for the program is faulty.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)When you are consistently told your life is over because of "xxxx" outrage (equality, race, religion) it is easy to quiver with the rest of the majority that implores you to keep your thoughts to yourself, while it keeps the hate spewers in the majority with you "willfully" tagging along.
Many in the LGBT community have adopted silence to protect themselves from economic reprisals, familial alienation, physical abuse and spiritual denigration.
This gives me hope that we can stop being so horrible to each other. It doesn't erase the prior horror, but you have to forgive to let the horrors go.
Easier said than done, though.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)to prevent, hopefully, the isolation many felt in years past. Yesterday was a huge step forward. I shudder to think if the decision had been no, how much that would have reinforced and emboldened the haters in life, those that seem to hate everything as the essence and purpose of their lives.
Cha
(298,139 posts)figure one has to have one of those minds that's easily manipulated and once they suck you in.. you're sucked.
How many escapees from fux have we Ever learned about except the occasional lucky one?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.
John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.
Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.
This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
SOURCE: http://tucradio.org/new.html
Here's the first part (scroll down at the link for the second part) on Carey:
http://tucradio.org/AlexCarey_ONE.mp3