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frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 26 days ago

Is the 'What have the Romans ever done for us' sketch pro-colonial propaganda?

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Is the 'What have the Romans ever done for us' sketch pro-colonial propaganda?

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frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 26 days ago
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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    Probably not on purpose. It was made by Br*ts, it just happens naturally to them.

    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOP
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      Most propaganda is like this: you’ve subconsciously absorbed it all your life and it comes out ur mouth. That’s how ideologies get perpetuated usually, rather than by cunning.

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        Also, according to the propaganda model, in developed democratic societies, the propaganda is assumed to be true, and if you’re not on board with that, you’re not part of the debate.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    No, it’s a comedy film.

    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOP
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      26 days ago

      Ok

  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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    In effect yes, but propaganda has a lot to do with intention, and being Monty Python are brits, it was likely not intentional

    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOP
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      I don’t think propaganda has a lot to do with intention

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        Propaganda, even in its original neutrally descriptive sense, is all about intention to persuade or influence people. If you start calling things that weren’t intended to be propaganda, propaganda, then literally all fiction becomes propaganda.

        So yeah, if you define everything as propaganda, it sure is

        • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOP
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          Yeah, kinda one of the assumptions of my pet comm [email protected]

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