Today in Labor History June 4, 1943: The Zoot Suit riots began in Los Angeles, with white soldiers attacking and stripping mostly Latino, but also some black, Italian and Filipino youth who wearing zoot suits. They did it in response to wartime propaganda vilifying the wearers of zoot suits as unpatriotic hoodlums. There was a government ban on zoot suits and other long, woolen articles of clothing because of war rationing. Additionally, the LA Times had been whipping up racial tensions by publishing propaganda associating Mexican and Hispanic youth with delinquency, particularly in the wake of the Sleepy Lagoon murder. Race riots also occurred that summer in Mobile, Beaumont, Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Oakland, Philadelphia and New York City.
During the Great Depression, the U.S. had deported between 500,000 and 2 million Mexicans. Of the 3 million who remained, the largest concentration lived in Los Angeles. Because of discrimination, many were forced into jobs with below-poverty wages. And then, the U.S. military built a naval academy in the Latino community of Chavez Ravine, further exacerbating tensions.
Zoot suits (baggy pegged pants with a long, flamboyant jacket that reached the knees) became popular in the early 1940s, particularly among young African American men. It was associated with a sense of pride, individuality and rebellion against mainstream culture. The trend quickly made its way into the Hispanic and Filipino subcultures in southern California. During this time, there was also a rise of pachuco culture among Latin youth. Chicano or pachuco jazz had become incredibly popular. Some of the great Pachuco band leaders included Lalo Guerrero, Don Tosti and Don Ramon Martinez.
Margarita Engle depicted The Zoot Suit riots in her young adult novel, Jazz Owls (2018), which she wrote in verse.
If you do not know how propaganda is working on you and against you then please educate yourselves. Do a search for "what is propaganda?" or "how does propaganda work". You may get angry when you know the answers but forever after you will be able to recognize it and respond appropriately.... The more you know.... #propaganda#election#USA#Canada
"West Virginia leads the nation in drug deaths, with more than three times the per capita rate of California; why is there no media drumbeat against Gov. Jim Justice?”
Broke-Ass Stuart shoots fish in a barrel, with loads of receipts. This is an excellent compendium of recent sources for SF media coverage vs. reality
“Former CIA analyst Gail Helt watched the entire Russian media broadcast [during which Tara Reade sat next to Russian spy Maria Butina and announced that she’s defecting to Russia] and said Reade’s sudden appearance in Moscow, & her association with Butina, has all the hallmarks of a Russian information operation…”
It seems #Russian#propaganda is working overtime. Funny, that they don't know the difference on the #Danish and the #Norwegians flags in the original tweet:
Präsident des #BfV Haldenwang sieht die #AfD als wichtigen Akteur bei der Verbreitung russischer #Propaganda. „Indem aus Teilen dieser Partei heraus auch russische Narrative weitergegeben werden, weitergesteuert werden, trägt das dazu bei, dass #Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland expandieren kann und auch in diesen Kreisen dann eben Putins Lied gesungen wird“, sagte Haldenwang am Montag im ARD-„Morgenmagazin“.
This is one of the most horrific things I've seen on #elonmusk#birdsite#Twitter where #nazi#propaganda reigns free. This image has been pixelated. The original, spread all over, was not.
It represents a nude Anne Frank, smiling and happy, in a faux resort Auschwitz. IOW: It's synthetic child porn combined with holocaust denial.
Anger is exactly what they want. To trigger you, so you are at your least rational and most vulnerable, and thereby with propaganda to normalize ethnic mass murder.
Imagine in a few years being able to say to chatgpt8:
Please promote my product on the fediverse by registering 100,000 accounts over the course of 12 weeks on at least 500 different instances, weighted by instance size. These accounts should be conversational and engaging with other members and should not be detectable as bots. 10% of of these bots should express skepticism in my product, and the remaining bots should engage them in a public discourse to correct their misunderstanding. Monitor the sentiment of people discussing my product and develop an optimal strategy to maximize that sentiment. “
Spin me up an array of websites dedicated to media and independent journalism, all of which publish articles on particular topics, referring to each other to create an impression of rigour and authenticity.
Complement this with dozens of social media accounts which engage in debate around these topics and link to these sites.
Make sure that the overall impression given is that x is true and y is false.
I knew from the beginning that the story of homeless vets being kicked out of a hotel to make room for asylum-seekers was bullshit, as everyone else should have.
I wonder if the folks who fell for it have ever been to America.
"Nato enlargement involves “a two-fold legitimation” strategy. First, Nato is rendered ordinary and unremarkable, pedestrian and everyday, and second, it is portrayed as above reproach, vital, an absolute moral good.
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Following the path taken by the German Greens, major Left-wing parties have abandoned military neutrality and opposition to war and now champion Nato.
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“Less than 24 hours after publication on our digital platforms, The #IrishTimes became aware that the column may not have been genuine. That prompted us to remove it from the site and to initiate a review, which is ongoing. It now appears that the #article and the accompanying #byline photo may have been produced, at least in part, using #GenerativeAI technology. It was a #hoax; the person we were corresponding with was not who they claimed to be. We had fallen victim to a deliberate and coordinated #deception.”
The audience for the CNN townhall w/Trump will be 400 Republicans & GOP-leaning independents
Allowing Trump to appear in front of an audience exclusively comprised of people who are likely sympathetic to Trump -- and then turn over the questions to that group -- is irresponsible
...my dire fear, /s:and I seem to be in illustrous and growing company* here/s, is that the #USA will pay the ultimate price for this: the failure of democracy.