• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    People say China represses free speech, but at least there they recognize the representation and have a rich lexicon of codewords to get around it already.

    The shaping of the western mind has been much more subtle and total that few even accept that it’s happened.

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      15 days ago

      There’s plenty of codewords, slang and at this point even jargon about this sort of thing in use in the US. It’s just not widely shared, for obvious reasons.

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      15 days ago

      I guess you have to learn to be more subtle with your propaganda when you aren’t allowed to just disappear anyone you want at any moment and create concentration camps for religions you don’t like.