Posted on 01/28/2022 6:07:15 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
On Friday, Michael Adder, the political cartoonist for the Washington Post, mocked the Freedom Convoy of truckers crossing the breadth of Canada and heading for the nation’s capital, Ottawa, to protest against Canada’s vaccine mandate. Adder created a cartoon of numerous trucks, all labeled in capital letters “FASCISM,” adding the hashtags, “fascism” and “supplychain.”
Roughly five hours later, The Post printed an opinion piece attacking the convoy. The author, David Moscrop, wrote, “The movement shares an affinity with Trumpist toxic authoritarianist politics.”
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Standing up for individual rights is “authoritarianism?’
Just how gullible are the people who read the Washington Post?
The government wants to force people to be injected and the people objecting are the fascists?
“Washington Post proves it has no idea what Fascism means”
Yeah, a lot of the left-wing discussion boards are calling the convoy ‘neo-nazis’ and the ‘flu-trucks-klan’.
(rolls eyes)
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
I’m so old I remember when Democrats supported striking workers.
Yup, commie Dems (and they ARE commies) glibly call everything fascist.
They just think anything bad is “fascist”. Really anything they don’t like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ToEvz-7trY
They should stop delivering the paper.
So, they have obviously changed the definition of “fascism” as they did “vaccine?”
“toxic authoritarianist politics”
How can one of the world’s biggest, most spontaneous and longest demonstrations by INDIVIDUALS protesting tyrannical government “authoritarian”? The author is absolutely nuts.
I look forward to the day when American truckers cease all deliveries to Washington. Then these overfed blowhards can have something real to fret about.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, Dang Facist Contact Lenses is what they have.
Fight the power, truckers.
Regular world: “fascism: government control of corporations (including control of labor)”
Bizarro liberal world: “fascism: laborers standing up against a government seeking to control they themselves”
Why, it’s almost as if they have it exactly backwards.
They are the antithesis of fascism.
The left has succeeded in positioning themselves as the anti-racist party.
It should come as no surprise that they’re now trying to position themselves as the anti-fascist party.
This is what you get when you have pinheads contributing to the discussion. Fascism, historically speaking, has no meaning in a Canadian or American context. It has never had any following except among a handful of kooks. The term’s only use is to tar people the Left doesn’t like and perceives as a threat. If the Left is concerned about authoritarianism (which it isn’t, since authoritarianism is of the Left’s essence), it should be looking at what goes on in Ottawa and Washington, and in some provincial and state capitals, and in some cities, not at protesting truck drivers.
“Washington Post proves it has no idea what Fascism means”
The prog drift further and further into their alternate reality psychosis.
Psychotic disorders arise when a person experiences a significantly distorted perception of reality.
What is forming here is the very real expression of the following.
KEY POINTS "Mass formation psychosis" is not an appropriate psychiatric term or a clinical diagnosis to describe "groupthink."
Terms like "mass delusion" and "mass psychosis" are being used inappropriately as pejoratives to denigrate our ideological opponents. Psychiatric terminology should not be used to advance political agendas.
U.S. National Archives & DVIDS/Public Domain
Source: U.S. National Archives & DVIDS/Public Domain
"Mass psychosis," "mass delusion," "mass formation psychosis," and "mass delusional psychosis" are terms being thrown around a lot lately to describe our ideological opposites. This is a pejorative and inappropriate use of psychiatric terminology as I explained in my previous blogpost. Here are some additional thoughts that came up during a recent discussion on this topic.
Does something like “shared delusion” or “mass psychosis” exist? And are there true cases of it that have been documented?
Psychiatry has always been careful not to label culturally sanctioned beliefs—like religious beliefs—as delusions. Accordingly, delusions are defined as fixed and false beliefs that are idiosyncratic to the believer and not shared within a culture or subculture. That said, it has long been recognized that delusions are sometimes shared between people. This traditionally occurs within a dyad like a parent and a child where one person is delusional and the other is impressionable—this has been referred to as “folie à deux” or the “insanity of two.” Shared psychosis, or shared delusion, has sometimes been applied to a handful of people sharing a delusional belief, but the term was never meant to describe what the journalist Charles Mackay called “Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds” back in 1841. Groupthink, whether it occurs in religion or politics, is not a matter of delusional thinking, psychosis, or mental illness and it’s a disservice to those who have mental illness to claim it is. It’s also a disservice to ourselves because it distracts us from the real social forces that lead to widespread false belief.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202201/does-mass-formation-psychosis-really-exist
Instead of a parent and a child relationship there is the prog / media relationship.
The confomation bias of the prog makes them hang on every word (that they want to hear) from the neo-communist propaganda machines referred to as "mainstream media."
it is unlikely that the problem will correct itself.
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