My mother, born, raised, and still lives in Norway, was anti-mask during COVID and refused to take the vaccine because of micro-robots (and the scary 5G towers), so we all know where she stands in certain topics. She also believes that Zelenskyy is the reason for Russia invading Ukraine…
Anyhoo, I was talking to her then other day, and she told me that I need to stop reading anti-propaganda. I laughed and asked if she could explain it, which she, of course, could not, but she said it’s a wording being used online all the time. I don’t frequent the sites she does, and I’ve known she’s been reading conspiracies for at least 10 years, but anti-propaganda? Does words not have meaning anymore?
If you ask me, anti-propaganda is facts, but hey, I might be wrong, considering English is my second language.
Everything with a message is propaganda. If I tell you to where a mask to protect those around you it’s propaganda. Nobody is immune to propaganda.
Anti-propaganda would definitely mean factual information without bias or a message. It’s not a real thing though, so in their meaning they clearly just mean anything they disagree with.
I do think that we could give information without propaganda if we really mean it.
Or at least there are levels of propaganda.
My personal take is that propaganda is not true, like actual lies.
I know that “the best propaganda is true” and just excluding other information. But purposely giving just a small part of the information is a lie regardless, to me at least.
But if we were to give all the possible information on any matter I don’t think it could count as propaganda.
And, this is the funny part, this is my own propaganda, because one of my political beliefs is that we could make politics in a healthier way without using the “evil” tactics for a “good” outcome.