Oprah hosted some absolute dumbfucks (McCarthy, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phill, take your pick!) to fill air time and now a virus that could have cleared the country within the span of a month has taken over a million lives in the US alone and is still chugging 4 years later.
NO I’M NOT ESPECIALLY WANTING TO SCREAM IN HER GIFT TAX WHITE ELEPHANT GIVING FACE BECAUSE I’M DEALING WITH MY SECOND ROUND OF THE STUFF IN LESS THAN A YEAR AND HAVING TO POSTPONE A BIRTHDAY BASH FOR ALL MY AUGUST BABY FRIENDS BECAUSE OF IT! WHAT COULD EVER GIVE YOU SUCH A WEIRDLY SPECIFIC IDEA‽
Oprah only contributed one thing of worth to our society, and that is this gif
A reality tv show host peed on some people and now our country is teetering on total collapse
Propaganda works. All the time.
Almost every time.
I read somewhere that Germany has a pretty good anti-propaganda education. That was a long time ago, so I don’t know if it’s true now. At schools here in the U.S., a buzz phrase for a decade or two has been to teach “critical thinking”. I rarely actually saw it done. I feel like it needs to be explicitly about recognizing propaganda with current events and media coverage. Starting in like middle school. I know it’ll never happen because every school will have to teach the bible or something. And parents would freak out about their kids learning to think instead of just being passively, or aggressively, indoctrinated at home.
Nowadays Finland is the go to example on misinformation education: https://osis.bg/?p=4450&lang=en
An article with some examples and explanation from Finnish teachers: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/europe/finland-misinformation-classes.html
They didn’t let that one guy into art school and 5 million Jews died.
$1000? You must have great insurance!
