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Entertainment Spectacle
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People are so desensitized to entertainment violence that they crave to participate in real-world violence. Here's a costumed performer using the protest as a stage set. This is dangerous propaganda.
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This is propaganda because
Protests are a form of spectacle, but it may be that some of the #blacklivesmatter police brutality protesters are just another form an entertainment for a desensitized American public, exhausted from Trump and Covid and seeking a thrill. This diminishes the cultural power of protests as a mechanism to produce structural and political change.
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