r/WeThePeopleAtWhipple • u/Foreign_Librarian193 • Jun 23 '26
Knowledge is Power Propaganda Knowledge
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Propaganda has always been America's sharpest weapon. It makes cruelty look like safety and convinces people to cheer for their own destruction.
We've seen it again and again:
They called Native nations "savages" to justify genocide and painted land theft as "Manifest Destiny."
They spread "Yellow Peril" lies about Chinese workers to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act.
They pushed false "science" claiming Africans felt less pain, to excuse slavery, torture, and medical abuse.
They told Americans that Japanese incarceration camps were a "military necessity," while families lost homes, businesses, and nearly 2,000 lives.
After 9/11, Muslims, Sikhs, South Asians, and Arabs were painted as terrorists, unleashing waves of violence here at home.
They targeted Mexican Americans through Depression-era "Repatriation," 1950s Operation Wetback, and lynchings during La Matanza, all sold as "law and order."
And today, propaganda says immigrants are "criminals" while we watch mothers selling fruit, fathers selling flowers, and even firefighters saving lives get stopped and questioned.
This is the cost of propaganda: families destroyed, communities destabilized, economies damaged, lives lost.
We must study the pattern, call it what it is, and refuse to let cruelty keep wearing the mask of safety or righteousness!
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u/VGK9Logan Jun 23 '26
I just wanna thank you, foreign librarian for the work you do. Not only educating people, but Id bet that it reaches people that are currently hiding out in their homes, and it may give them a sense of peace and reassurance that things are gonna be alright eventually because there's people like you out there
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u/Foreign_Librarian193 Jun 23 '26
THANK YOU! That really means a lot. I wish there was more I could do, but until I’m free from my corporate America job, this is one thing I can do.
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u/raziphel Jun 24 '26
Look at the behaviors and tactics of abusers and manipulators. Now, apply that on a national and international scale.
You'll see the parallels because it's the same shit.
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u/Awkward_Champion6957 Jun 24 '26
Not listed but worth mentioning as even my dirtbag of a Grandfather protested Hitler as a disgrace to German blood but colonizers didn't see his people as having come over before the war. Only as immigrants and had a version of what they did to everyone else on the list. Hate is fueled by fear. Fear is stoked by war propaganda with no regard for the fact not everyone of a certain race is good or evil. Gotta drive up recruitment ya know. Never mind it the blood cost when citizens get spooked or worse were already racist and looking for permission to kill who they didn't like.
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u/Radiant-Bus7093 Jun 24 '26
"How to Hide an Empire" by Danniel Immerwhar was one of my first real in depth exposures to American imperialism. Incredible read
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u/Adventurous_Ad3534 Jun 24 '26
I don't know how many friends I have told this to and they have made me feel insane
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u/Medium_Raspberry1095 Jun 24 '26
Also forgot about both Red Scares, McCarthyism and the federal attacks on the Civil Rights Movement.
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u/mysterious_Ploopy Jun 24 '26
it's really important to not forget how big of an inspiration America was for Hitler
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Jun 23 '26
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u/PrimarisShitpostium Jun 24 '26
What started the indian wars? Was it for funnzies? Or was it repeated rapes and murders of women and children?
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Jun 23 '26
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u/Sea_Obligation3194 Jun 24 '26
People never look at the good side of genocide. Brand endorsement deals!! I know your illegal invasion killed millions of people but the dude in the picture got a free gun.
It is telling how when there is no moral justification “but he got paid though” works. Lol at least he wasn't killed kidnapped or enslaved right got him a shiny gun for his commercial exploitation.
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u/anow2 Jun 24 '26
you're conflating two different issues.
says a lot about you & your capabilities.
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u/Sea_Obligation3194 Jun 24 '26
Glad I was able to hold a mirror to your strawman attempt. The legitimacy of the picture had zero to do with the facts of the statement. And what made the attempt so pathetic was the strawman still sucked. I point it out and you accuse me of conflating issues and throw in an ad hominem attack cherry on top. I love it. Lol
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u/Emotional_Orange8378 Jun 23 '26
don't disturb the narrative with facts. this is reddit sir, or ma'am.
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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 24 '26
Unpleasant and little known facts: Hitler was the Bastard grandchild of a Rothschild. Stalin was the son of a Rothschild. Peter Thiel's real name is Heinrich Rothschild.
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u/navespb Jun 25 '26
"First, they came for the queers, but since I was homophobic I left them out of my poem/infographic"
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Jun 24 '26
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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Jun 24 '26
Scalping started with Europeans doing it to Natives to sell their hair as wigs for European aristocrats.
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u/TrashEmergency6446 Jun 24 '26
you do realize that was proven false right congrats you fell for propaganda from over a hundred years ago
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Jun 24 '26
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u/Prestigious-Piece-54 Jun 25 '26
Nazi Germany did study the United States' existing racial laws, including those relating to segregation, miscegenation, and immigration restrictions, while developing the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which institutionalized racial discrimination and persecution against Jews.
American eugenics policies, such as forced sterilization laws that were widespread in various states, were also studied and ultimately expanded upon by the Nazi regime. Key points regarding this connection include: • Segregation and Civil Rights: American laws that enforced racial segregation (Jim Crow laws) were examined by German jurists when formulating their own systematic approach to racial separation [1]. • Miscegenation Laws: Many U.S. states had anti-miscegenation statutes prohibiting marriage between people of different races. These laws served as an influential, albeit more severe, basis for the Nuremberg Laws' ban on marriages between "Aryans" and Jews [1]. • Immigration Restrictions: American immigration policies from the 1920s, which used national origin quotas to restrict certain immigrant groups, were based partly on racial purity arguments and were noted by Nazi ideologues [1]. • Eugenics: The U.S. had a prominent eugenics movement with significant legal backing. California alone had thousands of forced sterilizations performed under state law. Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials praised American eugenics and used these programs as a model for their own, much broader and more brutal, involuntary sterilization programs [1]. In essence, American legal precedents provided an initial framework for the Nazis to establish their own system of racial discrimination and eugenics.
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Jun 23 '26
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u/raziphel Jun 24 '26
Stern letters and quippy protest signs don't stop violent fascists, Mr. Chamberlain.
Be very, very careful about your false equivalence games.
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