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[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago (20 children)

How can they say they love Israel but also say Jews run everything and be generally negative towards Jews here?

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (17 children)

"Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy."

Edited to add:

It's a common tactic with fascist regimes. Nazis used to do it with Jewish propaganda by simultaneously claiming that Jews were weak vermin that needed to be exterminated and that they are this supervillain that controls all the money.

You currently see it a lot with the people chanting "Genocide Joe" and claiming he is some mastermind warhawk with at the same time claiming that he is some feeble, senile old man. He's Schrödinger's politician!

[–] WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like most people believe one or the other and the internet makes groups feel like one big person.

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I feel like that may be true also, but I was referring to the groups pushing the agenda/propaganda, not the ones being affected by it. The ones propagandizing doublethink are the big issue IMO.

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