tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64212952062562194012024-03-13T10:39:37.286-07:00In Defense of Our NationSupporting and Defending the Constitution of the United StatesDavid Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.comBlogger644125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-13397950121140085942023-12-18T13:58:00.000-08:002023-12-18T13:58:13.439-08:00Analyzing the Attempts to Normalize Pedophilia.<p> <img alt="" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="531" itemprop="image" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/stop-abuse-man-hands-pressing-text-39110562.jpg" srcset="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/stop-abuse-man-hands-pressing-text-39110562.jpg 800w, https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/stop-abuse-man-hands-pressing-text-39110562-300x199.jpg 300w, https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/stop-abuse-man-hands-pressing-text-39110562-768x510.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="800" /></p><header aria-label="Content" class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 42px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #595959; font-size: 14.45px; line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 0.5em;"><span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit;">December 18, 2023</span> <span class="byline" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline;">by <span class="author vcard" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a class="url fn n" href="https://defenseofournation.com/author/jkdriss/" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" title="View all posts by David Risselada"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: inherit;">David Risselada</span></a></span></span></div></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin-top: 2em;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Sometimes I find myself at a loss. The past few years have been quite an experience for me as I have taken a deep dive into the studies of <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/persuasion/understanding-the-nature-of-the-propaganda-being-used-against-you-the-elaboration-likelihood-model-of-persuasion/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">persuasive communications</a> and their relationship to propaganda and attitude change. I also self-published a book on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFDWCW7K?fbclid=IwAR2wEREQImkC13eSb8s5nevYjUUTr7MT1bQpUc5e1S8Rd337ieoXQPz9sUo" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Critical Race Theory</a>, attempting to show readers just how deep of a rabbit hole that subject is, and how simply banning its use in elementary school will have little effect on how the theory is being used as a social transformational tool. Finally, I took a principled stand for the Second Amendment and due process of law by suggesting that all elected officials, even those we support, must be held accountable for unconstitutional actions. Failure to do so equals consent in the minds of those who thirst for power. In one article, I cited a <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51841c73e4b04fc5ce6e8f15/t/5c1924c2562fa7f0c0e90e08/1545151689089/Does_Party_Trump_Ideology_APSR.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">study</a> showing how Trump’s position on a minimum wage proposal was presented from both a left and right-wing perspective to gauge party loyalty, which was effective in shifting the opinions of right-wing voters. I also speculated that this was likely the intent of his statement on red-flag laws, but I digress. This has done little more than isolate me from a larger audience who for the most part, is heavily invested in the idea that Trump is our savior and that banning CRT in elementary school is the solution to our problems. I have been told on more than one occasion that the type of articles I am writing are of no interest to the larger conservative audience. Of course not, people want to read what reflects their views. What they fail to understand is that feeding back to you what you already believe is the nature of the new propaganda. With artificial intelligence now producing content of its own, the public’s beliefs and attitudes will be even easier to guide and control, as the mainstream narrative keeps the public focused on partisan politics and the idea that we must vote for a particular candidate or we are doomed. My main argument over the past few years is that Americans need to shut off the news and study what is known about <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/presidential-election/attitude-change-through-political-persuasion-is-the-goal-of-all-propaganda/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">attitude change</a> and persuasive communications. I am in no way claiming that I am the sole provider of this information, by the way, as all of this is published in communications journals. I am merely attempting to show what has been documented, and speculating about how it is affecting the mindset of the public.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">With all of this being said, presuming anyone is still reading, I found myself this morning a little perplexed about what I should write. Last night, I watched The Sound of Freedom for the first time. This is an interesting movie because it received criticism not only from the left for being made-up hype about nothing but there was some on the right who called it a misdirection of sorts, distracting the public from the reality of child trafficking and who is involved. I would be inclined to take the latter position only because we know of Epstein’s island and the number of politicians and celebrities who have been there. There is also a popular conspiracy about devil worship and child sacrifice concerning Epstein’s Island. I will not be discussing this as I believe that too is a misinformation distraction meant to discredit anyone discussing the issue. This isn’t to say that the events depicted in the film didn’t happen, only that there is much more to the story. The end of the movie had the greatest impact on me. It left me feeling downright disturbed. The claim was made that the United States is the world’s largest consumer of child sex. This would mean that we have a society teeming with pedophiles whose sexual lusts are driving the kidnapping and selling of children across the globe. While I can not find anything that backs that claim statistically, I have found that there are an <a href="https://www.b4uact.org/know-the-facts/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">estimated six million men</a> in the United States who can be considered to have pedophilic tendencies. Here is the disturbing part. That number was published on a website that dedicates its research to the issues faced by people who are no longer referred to as pedophiles in the scientific community, but minor-attracted persons. Which of course, are now being discussed as a marginalized population. We also know that there has been a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213414004414" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">massive increase in the number of arrests of those who consume child pornography</a> over the last decade. Finally, the American public has witnessed an attempt to de-criminalize, or at least de-stigmatize, pedophilia by trying to reclassify it from a mental illness or a crime to a normal sexual orientation. Don’t forget the issue of extremely graphic and sexually charged books being discovered in elementary school libraries.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">This is something that cannot be denied. I have written on this topic before and I can say that there is an effort within the halls of higher academia and the scientific community to prove that pedophilia is not as harmful as previously assumed. In my article, <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/the-problematic-science-defining-child-sexual-abuse-and-the-normalization-of-pedophilia/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Problematic Science Defining Child Sexual Abuse and the Normalization of Pedophilia,</a> I cite the work of Bruce Rind who has taken a lead role in studying this topic. Luckily, his work was met with much skepticism at the time and many in the halls of Congress deliberately distanced themselves from it. His article, <a href="https://www.ipce.info/library_3/rbt/metaana.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">“A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples,”</a> was something I came across in 2010 as a student in the social work program at Northeastern State University. The title of the article itself struck me as odd from the beginning. Assumed properties of child sexual abuse using college samples? That implies two things. One, the harmful effects of child sexual abuse are assumed, not proven, and there is an academic effort underway, as stated earlier, to prove and document it. Sick. First, the latter part of the title, “Using college samples” indicates that his paper involved the already existing, detailed studies from around the world investigating the effects of child sexual abuse. There are many things to take from Rind’s paper that paint a very disturbing picture. For instance, he makes the claim, or academics around the world world rather, are claiming that the negative effects of child sexual abuse are not necessarily from the act itself, but other determining factors such as family life and the relationship with the adult. Here we go blaming the traditional family again, but more on that later. Secondly, he claims that the effects of sexual child abuse are determined to be harmful because they are looking at it from the assumptive position of abuse, as opposed to other determining factors he mentions, when, according to him, it shouldn’t be. Did you get that? Traditionally speaking, the existing presumption that adult-child sex is an act of abuse, and harmful to the child, should be discarded in favor of the view that other determining factors could be the cause of the negative consequence, not the sexual act itself. Rind’s so-called findings get more disturbing yet as he implies that there is a difference between a five-year-old girl being raped and a 15-year-old boy who consensually agrees to engage in sexual acts with an adult. The latter, he claims, should not be considered child sexual abuse and that an engagement such as this may be beneficial for the child.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/the-problematic-science-defining-child-sexual-abuse-and-the-normalization-of-pedophilia/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">“The problem they are attempting to rectify lies in the moral and legal definitions of CSA. They are claiming that there is a distinct difference between the two examples, and by classifying the fifteen-year-old boy as a case of CSA, the waters are being muddied on what actually constitutes CSA and how to determine what harm is caused. The article argues that classifying all cases of sexual activity with children as CSA is scientifically problematic because there is a difference between forceful and consensual acts. The term abuse itself, the article claims, is problematic because it does not differentiate between the violation of social norms and acts committed against a child’s will.”</a></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">How does he justify the act of adult-child sex simply by saying the minor consented to it? The word consent implies there was a proposition in the first place. Meaning the adult in question has pedophilic tendencies. This, in modern society, is a crime. The left, however, is muddying the waters by referring to it as a violation of social norms as opposed to being a crime. This is where this gets interesting and downright troubling. This goes back further than most people may realize. First, it is important to understand that <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/queer-theory-and-the-deconstruction-of-identity-understanding-critical-theory-research/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Critical Theory</a> plays a role in this. Herbert Marcuse, of the Frankfurt School, argued that true human liberation would come when people’s basic sexual desires were set free and people could act on them without the restrictions put in place by societal norms. What societal norms? That sex was used as a means of not only reproduction but also maintaining white hegemony and the societal norms established by Protestantism. According to an article entitled <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elise-Chenier/publication/257771210_The_Natural_Order_of_Disorder_Pedophilia_Stranger_Danger_and_the_Normalising_Family/links/580a2a9e08aeef1bfee3e4c0/The-Natural-Order-of-Disorder-Pedophilia-Stranger-Danger-and-the-Normalising-Family.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Natural Order of Disorder: Pedophilia, Stranger Danger and the Normalising Family</a>, which is essentially an analysis of Michael Foucault’s 1978 book, <a href="https://ia902600.us.archive.org/35/items/the-ted-k-archive-texts-backup-april-2023/m/mf/michel-foucault-the-history-of-sexuality-volume-1-an-introduction.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The History of Sexuality</a>, the term pedophilia itself is a social construct derived from the illusion that the white, heterosexual, bourgeoise family is the caretaker of social norms and what reproductive practices should look like. The pedophile, the authors claim, is a constructed enemy meant to create the illusion of the family as a safe haven from sexual danger. This is written in an academic journal called Sexuality and Culture. The authors of this article also go into the history of sexuality and psychology mentioning the time when homosexuality was treated by the medical profession as a mental disorder and because of this, other sexual deviants were invented in the minds of the public as shadowy figures who posed threats to women and children. As if pedophiles don’t exist and people don’t kidnap and rape children. This article also argues that sexual deviancy, and legislation that outlawed it, was not the result of valid scientific research into the psychology of sexuality, but of fearmongering from legislatures and an anxious public, who of course at the time, was predominately Christian.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">I pulled up <a href="https://ia902600.us.archive.org/35/items/the-ted-k-archive-texts-backup-april-2023/m/mf/michel-foucault-the-history-of-sexuality-volume-1-an-introduction.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Foucault’s book</a> this morning as well, and after getting through the first few pages I have to say it is quite telling. He is writing from the perspective of a homosexual who takes Marcuse’s views that unlimited and unbinding sexuality is the road to freedom and modern society, with its taboos and attitudes towards anything that doesn’t fit the normative view of how sex should function in society, is nothing short of repression. It is important to understand that this guy’s work is considered instrumental to the modern study of sexuality. The opening chapter starts with a description of the seventeenth century, a time he describes as being sexually free when everyone’s sexuality was out in the open and there was no need for secrets. He says it was a time when “knowing children hung about amid the laughter of adults: it was a period when bodies made a display of themselves.” Whatever that means. He then goes on to describe the next century as a time when sexuality was confined to the strict purposes of reproduction and kept safely tucked away behind parents’ doors. Is this guy sick or what?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Traditionally speaking, conservative Americans pride themselves on their morality and their Christian worldviews. How Christian are we when we let these kinds of studies take place in the halls of our higher academic institutions? Most people turn away from discussing these topics. What about our churches? Our churches are doing nothing to stop it. In fact, most of them are pushing the homosexual issue along with acceptance of the transgender agenda. If the claim made at the end of Sound of Freedom concerning America, and the consumption of child sex is true, we are a long way off from being anywhere near the higher level of morality we believe we represent. We should all be investing our time and efforts to expose this mentality and the efforts to normalize pedophilia as a sexual orientation. I know I will be. The following link is a paper I turned in as a graduate student in a Master of Social Work program. The same program incidentally, where I was denied my degree three days before graduation.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://indefenseofournation.blogspot.com/2013/12/child-sexual-abuse-and-repealing-of-age.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">In Defense of Our Nation: Child Sexual Abuse and the Repealing of Age of Consent Laws…..By David Risselada</a></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">If you enjoyed this content please consider subscribing to <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">my website</a> and checking out my most recent books.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">A Critical Look at CRT in Education, Research and Social Policy, now <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFDWCW7K?fbclid=IwAR2wEREQImkC13eSb8s5nevYjUUTr7MT1bQpUc5e1S8Rd337ieoXQPz9sUo" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">available in paperback. </a></p><h6 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/41PSlf4-giL._SX331_BO1204203200_.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></h6><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">And <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Without-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning/dp/1633021912/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=david%20risselada&qid=1622799586&sr=8-2&fbclid=IwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion.</a></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p></div>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-17209818056914302362022-01-31T16:16:00.001-08:002022-01-31T16:16:14.928-08:00Exploring the Concepts and Realities of Ideological Subversion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiynwXpoS9hBxUuI20VtQnzBKR3AfXI1YAxXNSP9TmnDmrMTwfGB1C_BlEngv8XfOzVXsh3jJMYjsvXSdV5xbyzIhwWiOnfdesZkNmu9ifH3B2oZrMdgeawsIyyOd3U2YgaI2UHIbqLCvKBfK9af6MML-fh3gUBvBDvFxlSi-slXqu3nogHriSwzNnuSw=s1049" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1049" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiynwXpoS9hBxUuI20VtQnzBKR3AfXI1YAxXNSP9TmnDmrMTwfGB1C_BlEngv8XfOzVXsh3jJMYjsvXSdV5xbyzIhwWiOnfdesZkNmu9ifH3B2oZrMdgeawsIyyOd3U2YgaI2UHIbqLCvKBfK9af6MML-fh3gUBvBDvFxlSi-slXqu3nogHriSwzNnuSw=w448-h267" width="448" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was in my local grocery store the other day. It was earlier in the morning than when I usually go. I have been at home all week recovering from carpal tunnel surgery and this was the first time I had been out since. Even though the site has long become a familiar one, we have been dealing with the issue of Covid for over two years now, seeing most shoppers wearing facemasks left me feeling, shall we say, disheartened and deeply concerned about the state of our nation. The store was relatively packed, and I was, maybe, one of three or four shoppers not wearing a face covering. What left me feeling so disillusioned was the behavior of some of the people. For instance, one man saw me standing in an aisle all alone. He was at least twenty years older than me, putting him at around seventy or so. He was scared to death to walk down the aisle I was in and deliberately avoided doing so, despite the open space and me being the only one in the lane. Another individual, when I reached down to grab a package of shredded cheese, jumped back as if I had just threatened her with a gun. I was already at least three feet away from her when I grabbed my item, but she felt the need to put on this little show. I have reached the point, a long time ago mind you, where I can no longer take any of this seriously, and I begin to wonder if people have any interest in defending what little freedom of thought remains in our country. I told the woman I was not contagious and just a few years ago it was common knowledge that people would get sick from the flu every year. Influenza, after all, is a coronavirus as is the common cold. Her reply was at once, both hilarious and disturbing. She said she has Covid. If that’s the case, what is she doing in the grocery store? She didn’t appear sick. Her voice wasn’t coarse and despite being a bit misguided and frightened, appeared to be relatively healthy. Who knows, maybe she is recovering? I realized at this point, and I have known this from the beginning of all this nonsense, that there is no going back to normal. The issue of Covid-19, its variants, the vaccine, and all the other information pertaining to the so-called pandemic, has captivated, or captured, the hearts and minds of most Americans to the point where their perceptions of reality are so deeply altered, they will never let go. In the check-out lane, the cashier greeted me with the usual attempt to get rid of all their plastic bags as if I am someone who simply responds to the power of suggestion. “Plastic bags for you today sir?” He says with a smile. “No, thank you,” I replied. Driven by an urge to snap people out of this trance-like state they are in, I asked him if he had ever heard of Ivan Pavlov. He replied by asking, “The dog guy?” “Yes, the dog guy,” I said. “Did you know that <a href="https://www.joeldimsdale.com/dark-persuasion.html">Joseph Stalin employed him to apply his conditioning techniques to people in communist Russia?”</a></p><p>America’s perception of what is or what isn’t considered normal is deeply rooted in our subconscious. We all get up every day and live our lives within the confines of what has largely appeared to be a world that makes sense. We go to work, pay our bills, and keep ourselves informed by watching the daily news. We have our beliefs, our opinions, and our attitudes towards major social issues which affect all of us. Democrats believe that America is a racist nation in need of a complete make-over. Republicans believe that Donald Trump was America’s savior after eight years of Obama, without even considering his long friendship with the Clinton’s, and the fact that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bill-clinton-casually-encouraged-trump-to-run-for-president-before-2016-race-book">Billie boy encouraged him to run in 2015.</a> Covid-19 has dominated our thoughts and beliefs for more than two years. No matter what side of the aisle you are on you cannot escape it. It has become the reality whether you believe it or not.</p><p>These issues are at the forefront of American consciousness because they are constantly pushed through the avenues where most Americans receive information, media and education. On one side of the aisle there is Fox News, which presents itself as the conservative outlet, and on the other, CNN. America’s educational institutions have become little more than pushers of liberal indoctrination and thought reform. While most conservatives would agree that education has taken a very socialistic turn, working to melt the minds of our younger generation, would they consider the possibility that Fox News exists to shape, define, and guide conservative thought? Probably not, if they pride themselves on staying informed. According to the book <em><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Political_Persuasion_and_Attitude_Change/nzfHh3spvQ0C?hl=en">Political Persuasion and Attitude Change,</a></em> highly educated people consider the news, whichever flavor pleases their senses, to be credible, and are likely to go along with whatever their favorite outlet is reporting. This is useful information if the purpose of the media is to shape and guide public opinion.</p><p>While the nation appears to be brainwashed by the illusion that masks and vaccines will save them, without asking the obvious question of why they haven’t already, there is good news. Millions around the world are awakening to a new reality. They are beginning to wonder if there might be something to the whacked-out, tinfoil hat, one-world government conspiracy “theory.” The bigger problem is that the powers that be successfully discredit and demonize any movement that works to expose this truth. In the 1950s, Joseph McCarthy worked to expose communist infiltration in our government, and the methods of subversion they employed. The term McCarthyism was attached to anyone who bought into his ideas. Today, anyone who opposes the leftist agenda is discredited through elaborately staged illusions meant to give the impression they were something that they weren’t. The best example of this is from a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Let-Them-Call-Me-Rebel/dp/067973418X">biography of Saul Alinsky from Stanford Horwitt.</a> Many people are likely to know this, but it is a good reminder of what we are dealing with. Alinsky was asked by a group of college students what the best way to protest a George Bush rally would be. This is when he was a U.N. Representative. Alinsky told them to show up to the rally dressed like the KKK, and cheer whenever he said something they were against. Mainly pertaining to the Vietnam war. This, of course, created the illusion that the KKK supported Bush and that Bush was for the KKK.</p><p>There is an idea that I have come across in a couple of different books. In <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n7/mode/2up"><em>The Naked Communist</em></a><em>,</em> for example, Cleon Skousen says that if we study the problem of communism, we may be able to preserve freedom for all mankind. Unfortunately, he said this back in 1958. In another book, <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n19/mode/2up"><em>The Rape of the Mind,</em></a> Joost Meerloo states “If we are to survive as free men, we must face up to the problem of politically inspired mental coercion, with all its ramifications.” What does this mean? It means we must accept that the world isn’t as it seems. Conservatives must accept that it isn’t just Democrats trying to transform our world. They must accept that when six corporations control all the media, and the owners of Fox News contributed more to Hillary Clinton while pushing stories promoting Trump, something is fishy. They must accept that perhaps <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/q-the-deceptive-nature-of-communism-on-full-display/">Q is little more than a psychological warfare operation, controlling the thoughts of Trump supporters</a>. The Soviets, after all, were experts in the use of <a href="https://archive.org/details/AnatoliyGolitsyn">controlled opposition to transform independent nations into communists states.</a> Above all, it means that we must accept that everything we have ever believed about our thoughts and attitudes could be little more than deliberately created perceptions meant to keep us trapped in a thinking pattern that distracts us from the true reality. The reality of what Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov refers to as, Ideological Subversion.</p><p><a href="https://carterheavyindustries.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/love-letter-america-yuri-bezmenov.pdf">Ideological Subversion:</a> To change the <em><u>perception</u></em> of reality to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one can come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their communities, and their country. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGXq1ZBgvbg">Yuri Bezmenov</a>)</p><p>According to Bezmenov, Ideological Subversion is such a long process that the average person doesn’t realize that any change is taking place. This is like the concept of Fabian Socialism, small incremental changes over long periods of time. The frog in boiling water, so to say. Most Americans alive today, for example, were born after the invention of the television. The idea that we receive the information that guides our decisions and daily activities through our T.V. sets has been so normalized, for so long, that no one blinks an eye at it. Most Americans are also unaware of the fact that the Soviets had plans to use our free press against us before the television was even invented. In a report entitled <a href="https://archive.org/details/reportoncommunis00unit/page/n1/mode/2up"><em>The Communist Peace Offensive</em></a><em>, </em>it is highlighted that communist propagandists were keenly aware of how to use America’s free press to push their aims. This was at a time when America received all its information through radio. They were exploiting our freedoms, and our susceptibility to the belief we were exercising freedom of choice by choosing what we wanted to listen to. Bezmenov states that one of the key principles of subversion is turning a stronger force against itself. This is a concept echoed in Saul Alinsky’s <a href="http://www.mynacc.org/Rules_for_Radicals.pdf">Rule for Radicals,</a> where on page 128 he says to “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this because they can no longer live up to their own rules than the Christian Church can live up to Christianity.” This is an example of political coercion we must face up to. Our cherished freedom of speech is being used as a weapon against us in the mass media. Even if we are aware of communist propaganda, we can’t argue against it because of the First Amendment. So, we believe.</p><p>Media, according to Bezmenov, is one of the main avenues of subversion because it has a direct impact on public opinion and attitude. This isn’t a crazy conspiracy theory. Countless hours of research have gone into media-related studies going all the way back to <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/fear-based-persuasion-propaganda-and-an-invasion-from-mars/">The War of the Worlds radio broadcast.</a> The book, <a href="https://archive.org/details/invasionfrommars0000cant_g3i1"><em>Invasion from Mars: A Study of the Psychology of Panic</em></a> highlights the fact that researchers found people’s trust in media figures had a major impact on their belief that what they were listening to was a real-world event, not a play. The book, <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166"><em>Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research</em></a> discusses the role of media from being simply a conveyor of information to a tool of persuasion. For years there was little in the way of solid evidence suggesting that media can change people’s beliefs or opinions because it was doing little more than telling people the facts. It was in the 1960s that researchers found that opinions and attitudes were largely shaped not by the story itself, but how the story was framed for the audience. How did the media present the story? The news media started assuming the role of defining what issues American’s would think about, not necessarily how they thought about the issues. This, according <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166">to the authors of Chapter One of Media Effects,</a> is referred to as the agenda-setting role of mass media. Defining what it is Americans consider to be the most pressing and salient issues of the day.</p><p>Again, this is an example of the problem of communism we must study. Media Effects: Advances in Theory Research isn’t a conspiracy book. It is a detailed account of the numerous studies that have occurred to figure out how to use media to persuade, not inform, written by the researchers. If we decide to keep ourselves trapped in a line of thinking that was deliberately designed by these people to guide our opinions, and define for us what we should consider important, we will not get out of this. Another book to look at is <a href="https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-NekqfnoWIEuYgdZl/Manufacturing%20Consent%20%5BThe%20Political%20Economy%20Of%20The%20Mass%20Media%5D_djvu.txt"><em>Manufactured Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media</em></a> by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is admittedly, a known leftist, however, his insight rings true. Discussing something called the Propaganda Model, he describes a news media where a certain amount of dissension is allowed to counter the mainstream narrative. This is done to give the illusion of a free press as the alternative information is kept within acceptable bounds and margins. In other words, whether you are listening to news that pushes or questions the Covid-19 narrative, your mind is still on Covid-19. Right where the commies want it to be.</p><p>This is the reality we are living in. Our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and opinions have been subverted through the infiltration of media. A massive amount of research has been conducted concerning how we respond to media messages, how they affect our opinions and dominate our thinking. The mass media sets the agenda for what we are to consider <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166">“the most important and salient issues of the day.”</a> As noted earlier, researchers also know that highly educated people pride themselves on staying informed and up to date on the latest information, and view media sources as legitimate. This is the reality of Ideological Subversion. It isn’t a crazy whacked-out conspiracy theory, but a frightening truth that can be verified if people could learn what to research. The media narrative over Covid-19 has been so successful, for example, that people continue to rush out to testing sites and accept a positive test result, despite the fact that the World Health Organization itself has <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives/">admitted the PCR tests are producing high rates of false positives.</a></p><p>A good article is supposed to describe the problem and offer viable solutions. Presenting workable ways to solve the problem of brainwashing is difficult because you must first, convince people they have been brainwashed. Solving this problem and returning America to a state of uninfringed liberty means accepting that we have all been affected by this. We cannot go on thinking that Fox News is giving us the conservative viewpoint, for example. We must move on realizing, based on the evidence presented, that they could be defining what it is conservatives <em>should be</em> thinking about. It is the same for all media. The false left/right paradigm exists to create conflict and push us towards socialism. The bottom line is this. We must shut off the news and start researching for ourselves. It has all been written down, the work has already been done. We just need to read and accept that it may be the reality we are dealing with.</p><p> </p><p> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-1097502023073959612022-01-02T08:26:00.004-08:002022-01-02T08:26:26.347-08:00<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">To
whomever, it may concern,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For
months now I have been working to draw attention to deliberate lies and
inconsistencies pertaining to the Coronavirus narrative. I suppose I had some
hope that there were people willing to do what our forefathers did and put
their necks on the line in defense of liberty. I suppose I was wrong. In this
letter, I will provide the links to the information which shows there is no need
for mandated vaccines, and frankly, information that should have stopped this
dead in its tracks long ago. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First
and foremost, I need to remind you that Dr. Fauci has been exposed as a liar.
He has been exposed for funding </span><a href="https://cn.thekeyofknowledge.net/lib/docs/General/DrFauciBackedControversialWuhanLabWithUSDollarsForRiskyCoronavirusResearch.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GAIN
OF FUNCTION RESEARCH</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. Are you suggesting that I should be
forced to take a vaccine that was just proven to be manipulated to be more
dangerous? How can you justify this when there is other information which
discredits the entire narrative? Furthermore, the director of the National
Institute of Health has just resigned due to this revelation. </span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/04/report-francis-collins-nih-director-resign-coronavirus-pandemic/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Francis
Collins, NIH Director, Resigns After Gain-of-Function Falsehood Exposed (breitbart.com)</span></a><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Deputy Director of NIH recently
admitted that Gain of Function Research was conducted with SARS COV-2. Vaccines
cannot be undone. By mandating me to take this vaccine you are requiring I be
injected with a substance invented to fight a disease that was manufactured
through gain of function research, to be more virulent, in a laboratory. </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/nih-admits-us-funded-gain-of-function-in-wuhan-despite-faucis-repeated-denials/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NIH
admits US-funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan (nypost.com)</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
following is from the CDC’s own document entitled-<i>CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus
(2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel. </i>On page 40 they admit there
was no isolated sample of covid 19 when they developed the PCR testing
procedures. The following is from that document-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since no quantified virus isolates of the
2019-nCoV were available for CDC use at the time the test was developed and
this study conducted, assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were
tested with characterized stocks of in vitro transcribed full-length RNA (N
gene; GenBank accession: MN908947.2) of known titer (RNA copies/µL) spiked into
a diluent consisting of a suspension of human A549 cells and viral transport
medium (VTM) <u>to mimic clinical specimen</u>. Samples were extracted using
the QIAGEN EZ1 Advanced XL instrument and EZ1 DSP Virus Kit (Cat# 62724) and
manually with the QIAGEN DSP Viral RNA Mini Kit (Cat# 61904). Real-Time RT-PCR
assays were performed using the Thermo Fisher Scientific TaqPath™ 1-Step
RT-qPCR Master Mix, CG (Cat# A15299) on the Applied Biosystems™ 7500 Fast Dx
RealTime PCR Instrument according to the CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR
Diagnostic Panel instructions for use. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CDC
2019 Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel - Instructions
for Use (fda.gov)</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If
there was no isolated sample of the virus from which they developed the PCR
test, what did they use to develop the vaccine? Can you tell me what they mean
when they say, “viral transport medium to mimic the clinical specimen?” If you
can’t explain that do you not have a moral imperative to find out what that
means? Does this not violate laws concerning informed consent such as </span><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/38/7331"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">38 U.S. Code 7331</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Are
you aware of the legal and scientific processes which are required in the
documenting of new viruses? If not, here is some information on that for you to
read. </span><a href="https://evidencenotfear.com/where-is-the-evidence-for-the-existence-of-the-novel-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-dr-kevin-p-corbett/?fbclid=IwAR22x1-jaUB88yT-6rTWB4hAKhLxrRgRHACvolaOXQmnH5CzVKsYzO3TlxY"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHERE
IS THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE 'NOVEL CORONAVIRUS', 'SARS-CoV-2'? -
Dr. Kevin P. Corbett - Evidence Not Fear</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
is important because the </span><a href="https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">W.H.O.
acknowledged that the PCR tests were producing high rates of false tests.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> In
June 2021 the </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CDC
announced they were halting the use of the PCR tests by December 2021</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.
In their own words, they are calling for something that can differentiate
between the flu and Covid-19. Can you explain why? Can you explain what testing
procedures they are using now and how they are ensuring they are not producing
false positives? If you cannot, do you not have the moral imperative to find
out for the sake of your employees? </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lab
Alert: Changes to CDC RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Last
summer Dr. Birx admitted that they were labeling all deaths as covid-19 deaths.
The number of those allegedly killed by Covid was revised several times over to
reflect the number of those who may have died from other health complications.
The CDC, this past June, released the following report ̶ </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm?fbclid=IwAR3ABkWSkHErI7G2RaPeTirEE0nZZ1yOJVhvID7035oeJBHoP3MoauJoCFE"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #1e73be; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness
Among 540,677 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020-March 2021.</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In their own words, <u>the death of 94.9% of the
540, 677 people hospitalized due to COVID-19 can be attributed to comorbidities
such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and even high rates of anxiety</u></span><u><span style="background: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></u><span style="background: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This means, and we have known this all along, that only a
small percentage of the population are affected by Covid-19 in a
life-threatening way. Furthermore, in this report the CDC states that only
people at risk from these other underlying ailments should be targeted for
vaccination. The following quote is from that report-</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm?fbclid=IwAR3ABkWSkHErI7G2RaPeTirEE0nZZ1yOJVhvID7035oeJBHoP3MoauJoCFE"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;">The highest risk of severe
COVID-19 illness was associated with obesity, anxiety and fear-related
disorders, diabetes with complication, CKD, and neurocognitive disorders. Among
patients younger than 40, essential hypertension was also a risk factor for
death. The total number of underlying medical conditions was a strong risk
factor of severe COVID-19 illness. Preventing COVID-19 in populations with
these conditions and multiple conditions should remain a public health
priority, along with targeted mitigation efforts and ensuring high uptake of
vaccine, when available, in these people and their close contacts.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
October 2020, </span><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp2020926?articleTools=true"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
New England Journal of Medicine</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> released their article
entitled Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 where they essentially
recommend employers be tasked with mandating the vaccine because it would avoid
the “constitutional due-process issues” of government mandating it. They also
state that the vaccine should only be <u>mandated by employers if there is a
system of accountability in place</u>. Are you going to take responsibility for
adverse reactions? If not, you have a moral imperative to protect your employees
from possible harm. The following is a quote from that article- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp2020926?articleTools=true"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ensuring
Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 (nejm.org)</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Neither fines nor criminal penalties
should be used, however; fines disadvantage the poor, and criminal penalties <u>invite
legal challenges on procedural due-process grounds. Both are bad public health
policy for a Covid-19 vaccine because they may stoke distrust without improving
uptake.”<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
would urge you to read it. To avoid these issues, they are putting the burden
on you, and it has been planned that way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine?fbclid=IwAR24rkH4zelsmtuAEZ49LGKFOZh1xagmE7eb9SLbJYOfVRPwUQE2w-W5h_Q"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
FDA press release letter</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> clearly states there is an increased
risk for Myocarditis and, that the long-term effects of the vaccine are not yet
known. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Additionally, the FDA conducted a rigorous evaluation of the
post-authorization safety surveillance data pertaining to myocarditis and
pericarditis following administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
and has determined that the data demonstrate increased risks, particularly
within the seven days following the second dose. The observed risk is higher
among males under 40 years of age compared to females and older males. The
observed risk is highest in males 12 through 17 years of age. Available data
from short-term follow-up suggest that most individuals have had resolution of
symptoms. However, some individuals required intensive care support. <u>Information
is not yet available about potential long-term health outcomes. </u>The
Comirnaty Prescribing Information includes a warning about these risks.” </span><a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine?fbclid=IwAR0bfr9fGQOekK0p_eaucDxYX6Feamm_lG7uWJi-ZQ-eT0Oepbi7O4jb0rY"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">FDA
Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine | FDA</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Are you prepared to
inform me and other employees about the possibility of these risks and the
unknown long-term effects based on our own individual health histories? If not,
how can you rightfully and morally mandate a vaccine simply because you are
being told to? The government may offer some protection against liability but
in the long run, adverse reactions will be the responsibility of those forcing
the vaccine on their employees under duress of losing their jobs. That is a
false choice that employees cannot be held responsible for when they are being
forced. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I would urge you to </span><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download?fbclid=IwAR3jDQpQxFluNY-VlEFp7532AZt4rTBYW5iK2anaMPCCUmSO2fZ0TYdQCzc"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">read the vaccine approval letters from</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> the FDA to Pfizer. They
clearly state that what was approved was a vaccine called COMIRNATY, which they
claim is the same ingredients of the Pfizer Bio-n-Tech vaccine. However, the
Pfizer vaccine was only reauthorized under the emergency use authorization. Can
you assure me that the shot you will be requiring me to take is the Comirnaty
vaccine and not the Pfizer Bio-N-Tech? If not, you are forcing me to take a
shot that is still under the EUA. If you cannot make sense of this information,
then do you not have the moral imperative to find out exactly what is going on
if you are going to force your employees to be vaccinated? Senator Ron Johnson
has sent two letters to the FDA demanding clarification on this issue to which
he has received no response. Under federal law, it is illegal to require a
vaccine which is still under emergency use authorization, or if there are other
effective means available to treat the disease. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“On August 23, 2021, FDA approved the biologics license
application (BLA) submitted by BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH for COMIRNATY
(COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) for active immunization to prevent COVID-19 caused by
SARS-CoV-2 in individuals 16 years of age and older. <u>On August 23,
2021, having concluded that revising this EUA is appropriate to protect the
public health or safety under section 564(g)(2) of the Act, FDA is reissuing
the August 12, 2021 letter of authorization in its entirety with revisions
incorporated to clarify that the </u><em>EUA will remain in place for the
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine </em><u>for the previously-authorized
indication and uses, and to authorize use of COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA)
under this EUA for certain uses that are not included in the approved BLA.” </u></span><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download?fbclid=IwAR3jDQpQxFluNY-VlEFp7532AZt4rTBYW5iK2anaMPCCUmSO2fZ0TYdQCzc"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pfizer-BioNTech
COVID-19 Vaccine EUA LOA reissued October 20 2021 (fda.gov)</span></a><u><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Have you heard the term </span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32908214/"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ANTIBODY
DEPENDENT ENHANCEMENT</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> commonly associated with the mRNA vaccines? It is a process
which allegedly inserts the spike protein of the synthetic virus, (because
remember, the CDC admits they never isolated a virus) into your DNA which in
turn, when later exposed to a similar virus or the so-called virus itself, you
become sicker because your body replicates it. Here is some information on that
as well.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Antibody-based drugs and vaccines against severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are being expedited through
preclinical and clinical development. Data from the study of SARS-CoV and other
respiratory viruses suggest that anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies could exacerbate
COVID-19 through antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). Previous respiratory
syncytial virus and dengue virus vaccine studies revealed human clinical safety
risks related to ADE, resulting in failed vaccine trials. Here, we describe key
ADE mechanisms and discuss mitigation strategies for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and
therapies in development. We also outline recently published data to evaluate
the risks and opportunities for antibody-based protection against SARS-CoV-2.”</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Can you provide me with
information that guarantees I will not experience this? If you cannot, do you
not have the moral imperative to learn more about it? According to a recent
study, the majority of Covid hospitalizations are occurring because of
anti-body dependent enhancement in fully vaccinated individuals. </span><a href="https://stateofthenation.co/?p=87290&fbclid=IwAR2PAG7EQZbRyeW_bg7zfEefdtWuqWsz-cmxdrWcpeYn3hZdM3NHQeYJPcI"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">AI-Powered
DoD Data Analysis Program Named “Project Salus” SHATTERS Official Vaccine
Narrative | SOTN: Alternative News, Analysis & Commentary
(stateofthenation.co)</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Covid-19 pandemic
has been filled with misinformation and deliberate lies meant to scare an
unsuspecting public into compliance with this vaccine effort. The information
has been provided which paints a clear picture at the very least, that forced
vaccinations would be unethical simply because the information is inconsistent.
As it stands right now, there is no recourse for individuals to take as the
pharmaceutical companies and government are immune for prosecution in the event
of adverse reactions. Currently, according to the CDC’s own </span><a href="https://openvaers.com/covid-data/covid-reports?start=1620"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vaccine Adverse Reaction Reporting System,</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> there have been
thousands of reports since this vaccine was introduced. </span><a href="https://www.johnccarleton.org/BLOGGER/2021/07/20/45000-dead-from-covid-19-vaccines-within-3-days-sparks-lawsuit-against-federal-government/"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is also a federal lawsuit alleging that 45,000 people
have died of this vaccine.</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> With all due respect to you and your organization, unless
you can guarantee my safety and follow the laws of informed consent, which I am
pretty sure I have demonstrated you cannot, you have no legal or moral
authority to force this vaccine on me and it would be, no matter what the
president says, against the law to fire me or anyone else given the
circumstances. I would urge you to jump on board the lawsuit that is being
filed by not only the State of Oklahoma, but twenty other states as well before
making any decisions we all will regret.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Furthermore, it has been
recently discovered that the vaccine is only good for six months before it
starts losing its efficacy. Are you prepared to force your employees to get
booster shots every six months to a year?
</span><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2821%2902183-8"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Effectiveness
of mRNA BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine up to 6 months in a large integrated health
system in the USA: a retrospective cohort study (thelancet.com)</span></a><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
would also like to highlight my religious objections to this vaccine as well as
all others. Revelations 13:17 clearly states that a mark will come and if men
refuse to take it, they will not be able to buy or sell. Clearly, with the idea
of vaccine passports and some businesses refusing services, and even some
hospitals refusing organ transplants if patients do not have this vaccine, we
are on this path. It is my sincere religious belief, based on the words in
Revelations and my personal relationship with Christ, that this vaccine
represents such a mark. For the record, I have not taken any vaccines since
being released from active duty over 15 years ago, with the exception of the
swine flu. I only took this one because my wife had my small children injected
with it. If they were gong to suffer any adverse effects, I was going to suffer
them also. My children are now grown, and my wife stands with me in my refusal
to take this vaccine. It is also well known that the use of aborted fetal
tissue was used in the development and testing processes of this vaccine. I
stand 100 percent against all abortions and feel there is no legal, moral of
ethical grounds in which a vaccine that used aborted fetal tissue can be
forced on me or anyone else. </span><a href="https://www.health.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/COVID%20Vaccine%20Page/COVID-19_Vaccine_Fetal_Cell_Handout.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">COVID-19_Vaccine_Fetal_Cell_Handout.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
Some will argue the lives potentially saved would rule out ethical concerns
however, it is clear that this vaccine is not preventing people from
contracting Covid-19. Title VII of the Civil Rights act states that religious
discrimination in the workplace is illegal. It is also illegal to segregate
people based on their religious beliefs or, to harass people based on their
religious beliefs. Making people justify their religious beliefs in response to
a mandated vaccine which is still authorized under emergency use could
constitute harassment and segregation. Drawing any attention towards those
people who have chosen to not get vaccinated because of religious reasons
certainly would be considered harassment and making them follow any different
procedures because of their unvaccinated status would be singling them out,
thus, constituting segregation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There
is one final point I would like to make. </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/congress-exempt-biden-covid-19-vaccine-mandate"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Congress,
the people we elect, are exempt from this mandate.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
This means they are sitting back letting you, the civilian business owner,
assume all the risks in doing so. Is that right? Shouldn’t the people we elect
to represent us be subject to the same laws, or at the very least, be working
to protect your interests? After all, they are not the ones with money invested
in employee training and other business details associated with retaining
good, dependable help. It is becoming abundantly clear that millions across the
country are refusing this vaccine and many employers, consequently, are
suffering a lack of staff. Do you think this is the right way to go? Is it
right that this burden was placed on you because the government knew they
didn’t have the lawful authority to do it? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank
you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">David
Risselada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-20513739617637474772021-10-04T17:21:00.006-07:002021-10-04T17:21:58.702-07:00Talked into Accepting Tyranny: Covid-19 and the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxlfGhkLSfakDs4bgivpclk_uGQp6cuCkUj9fhzEDRsnvZUp3vNd_0FQJ6T_-Z4LakJNKUaD3ulqBoajA_XCUDnxhdRRQHIj2f8LOKiwrLcazVXNzPmqKv6WT532bV4kS4aXvvBHiH25K/s266/OIP+%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="266" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxlfGhkLSfakDs4bgivpclk_uGQp6cuCkUj9fhzEDRsnvZUp3vNd_0FQJ6T_-Z4LakJNKUaD3ulqBoajA_XCUDnxhdRRQHIj2f8LOKiwrLcazVXNzPmqKv6WT532bV4kS4aXvvBHiH25K/w323-h268/OIP+%25283%2529.jpg" width="323" /></a></div> <br /><p></p><p><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">The great tragedy of our time is not a government seeking total control, but a population of willfully ignorant people refusing to turn off their televisions.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Cleon Skousen said in <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n29/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Naked Communist</a> that freedom for all men is achievable if enough people could study, and understand the world’s most pressing problem. What is the problem he was referring to? The Marxist’s quest to reshape humanity in their own image. Unfortunately, people have consistently shown that they’re more interested in being entertained than taking the personal responsibility required to maintain a free society. This is relevant in America as our lives revolve around television media. While there seems to be an awakening to the reality of “fake news” and a propaganda-driven agenda, too many Americans remain blissfully unaware of how their own behaviors and reactions to media messaging help shape and aid this agenda. The controllers behind the scenes spend countless hours analyzing our attitudes and opinions to understand <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">the cognitive processes</a> involved in their formation, and how to <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">change them</em> to gain compliance. Studying and understanding the problem of Marxism still holds great importance. However, it is the sophisticated science of studying human behavior – being applied to change our attitudes – which must be understood. Particularly when it comes to Covid-19.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">There is a massive effort underway to understand how to change our attitudes, opinions, and behaviors through the psychology of <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">persuasion</em>. It could be theoretically argued that Americans are allowing themselves to be <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">talked into </em>accepting tyranny because of the way media frames the message, and how effectively social scientists can capitalize on our reactions. According to the book <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research</em></a><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </em>it isn’t the information being presented which influences persuasion, but how people respond to it. Social Scientists have been able to study the effects of mass media attitude change through the lens of a behavioral model called the <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/uncategorized/understanding-reflexive-reaction-to-speech-and-the-elaboration-likelihood-model-of-persuasion/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion</a>. As the name implies, this model examines the abilities of certain people to “elaborate on,” or think deeply about messages they are receiving from media sources. The Elaboration Likelihood Model was also used to determine the best way to frame messages, based on people’s reactions, to gain compliance with the Covid-19 agenda.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">According to <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research</em></a><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </em>this model of persuasion focuses on two aspects of cognitive functioning which show how people respond to media messages. These are referred to as the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">central and peripheral routes</em> of persuasion. The central route suggests that certain people can apply their own experiences, and carefully analyze the information as they receive it. The central route is taken because people are thinking deeply about an issue, therefore, it is necessary to tweak the message based on the recipient’s current beliefs to achieve persuasion. The peripheral route suggests that some people cannot process information effectively, and all it takes is a simple “cue to action” to motivate a change in attitude. Interestingly, it has been shown that attitude change through the central route can be longer-lasting because of the effort put into the thought processes, this is known as <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/effort-justification-and-mask-mandates-the-science-behind-virtue-signaling/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">effort justification</a>. People justify their change in opinions, or behaviors, because of the effort required to make the change. The peripheral route produces change based on passive and reactionary processing, meaning that very little thought was put into it therefore, the change in opinion may not be as deeply rooted. It has been shown that important information, what people think about most, can be determined by the stories consistently presented by the media. If the media can control what is in the forefront of people’s minds, persuasion through the Elaboration Likelihood Model is almost a certainty.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">According to an article entitled <a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/10463283.2021.1964744.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Persuasion amidst a pandemic: Insights from the Elaboration Likelihood Model</em><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">, </em></a>the study of persuasion and attitude change can provide useful guidance in effectively framing the Covid-19 message to gain more compliance with desired behaviors. This article echoes some of the same information previously mentioned. For example, people’s abilities to process information are broken down into two categories, high and low elaboration. When elaboration is high, it is more closely associated with the central routes of persuasion, and when elaboration is low, the peripheral route. The authors of this article state that the effectiveness of a persuasive message can be predicted by understanding the amount of elaboration the recipients are likely to put into processing it. Are they likely to investigate the merits of the information being presented, or just accept it?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Convincing the public to adopt behaviors that counter conventional logic, like wearing a mask all day, or getting a vaccine that has been “fast-tracked,” requires strong attitudes towards those behavioral choices. Attitudes tend to be stronger when there is a great deal of confidence behind them, how easily accessible the information is that shapes the attitude, and how important it is. According to the book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Political_Persuasion_and_Attitude_Change/nzfHh3spvQ0C?hl=en" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Political Persuasion and Attitude Change</a>, </em>highly educated people tend to expose themselves to mass media communications at a higher rate and are more likely to receive the message. Most people consider the news to be a credible source of information, therefore, those so-called, highly educated individuals who trust the news can be deemed easily persuadable because they believe their attention to media contributes to their decision-making process. Their attitudes are strengthened because they believe they are making informed choices from credible sources. Creating the perception that people are making informed choices and coming to their own conclusions in the context of attitude change is essential in developing effective persuasive communications.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/10463283.2021.1964744.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">“Examining persuasion variables through such a framework is critical when considering how to effectively persuade the public in a context like the COVID-19 pandemic. When persuasive messaging is aimed at creating public safety attitudes that guide behavior, such messaging must be disseminated in a way most conducive to creating strong attitudes. Ensuring that this occurs requires understanding which persuasion processes tend to produce strong attitudes as well as how and when those processes are most likely to be elicited.”</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Source credibility and perceived biases among message recipients are strong factors to consider when framing a message. Persuasion can be effective if a source generally perceived to be biased suddenly changes position. This gives people who are in the high elaboration category the impression that the biased source suddenly switched their position because of new and important information they have received. When it comes to Covid-19, information is always changing, and prominent people who are seen as biased by some have changed their positions several times. Is this done deliberately knowing that it increases the chances of attitude change?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/framing-narratives-and-inducing-compliance-using-moral-foundations-theory/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Framing the message around the values and morals of those targeted for persuasion</a> is also effective in producing attitude change. It is believed that behaviors and attitudes are centered around a person’s beliefs, therefore, if a position appears to be argued from the perspective of an individual’s moral worldview, they are more likely to change their attitudes. An article entitled <a href="file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/day_fiske_downing_trail_inpress_shifting_attitudes_using_moral_foundations_0.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Shifting Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Using Moral Foundations Theory </em></a>shows how presenting leftwing issues within the moral framework of conservative values produces desirable behavioral change. For example, the issue of homosexual marriage was presented within the context of human freedom and individual choice, morals associated with conservative beliefs, and this prompted a more accepting attitude towards the issue. It has also been shown through various studies that message processing is more effective when a level of importance is placed on the issue. If a position is framed within the parameters of an audience’s morals it is viewed as being more important, therefore, the chances of longer-lasting shifts in attitudes are greater. The whole Covid-19 narrative has been presented through the lens of adopting behavioral changes based on the idea that they would save lives. This is a value that all people would assign great importance to.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">All media communications concerning Covid-19 are created to produce behavioral changes which are conducive to the agenda. They are all formulated based on what is understood about human behavior, and our responses to their messaging. The authors of <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research</em></a> state that it is necessary to separate the public into those who may have a genuine interest in the message, and those who do not, when it comes to crafting the information meant to influence our choices. The most important element is how the information presented is perceived to have a <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">direct impact on the individual</em>. Those interested, or concerned, about Covid-19 are going to be considered high elaboration targets, and the message will be tailored to create the perception that they are putting a great deal of thought into their decisions. News stories concerning Covid are going to be presented in a smart, credible way to produce the strongest results. Those considered to be low elaboration targets or people who do not think deeply about the issue, do not process the information effectively enough to be affected by this type of persuasion. They are believed to be motivated by <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">cues to action, or stimuli,</em> which prompts them to react. Ridiculous narratives like “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” or, “two weeks to flatten the curve,” are geared towards these people.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">In summary, these studies have been going on for decades. One of the first major attempts to understand mass media and how it affects human behavior occurred after the 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. Millions of people responded as if they believed Earth was being invaded by Martians. Hadley Cantril, author of the book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400852833/html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Invasion from Mars: A Study of the Psychology of Panic</a> </em>stated this particular study would lay the groundwork for how all future studies concerning mass media, and our reactions to it, would be conducted. There are many parallels between that study and what was discussed in this article. <a href="https://www.chesler.us/resources/links/Cantril.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(See this PDF)</a> First, the perceived trust of those acting as news broadcasters played a tremendous role in people’s reactions to the broadcast. Secondly, they were able to separate people into those who had what was referred to as “critical ability” to do further investigations and those who simply responded based on the stimulus itself. Fortunately, not everything these researchers believe about our behavior is true. There are many people doing <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/uncategorized/same-old-rhetoric-leftists-admit-they-must-discredit-opponents-to-make-message-more-effective/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">research for themselves and coming to radically different conclusions</a>. This is putting a thorn in the side of those pushing this agenda and forcing them to adopt more coercive means. This isn’t to say that these methods aren’t effective. Many millions of Americans are adopting the behavioral recommendations simply because they have been persuaded into doing so. Cleon Skousen was correct in his assertion that a failure to understand the problem of Marxism would have dire consequences. Failure to understand the efforts taken in manipulating our perceptions, and changing our attitudes, is perhaps of equal if not greater importance.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">To learn more about this topic check out my book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Without-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning/dp/1633021912/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=david%20risselada&qid=1622799586&sr=8-2&fbclid=IwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-2988109105789963112021-09-14T15:00:00.005-07:002021-09-14T15:00:38.489-07:00Framing Narratives and Inducing Compliance Using Moral Foundations Theory<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMHscBHiYdtwOFe5p9NFV31sC7jnHXEkxwV3zLsBY9CtkW4FXGWzUCeZpjJ5fG_457QulM8rDSA8RyPO8ZQbwOfUaMrKwuAYDA1qkH0hJFnZIF2fKrdj63quBE3S6bkJUlB6hd09SQjyOt/s322/OIP+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="322" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMHscBHiYdtwOFe5p9NFV31sC7jnHXEkxwV3zLsBY9CtkW4FXGWzUCeZpjJ5fG_457QulM8rDSA8RyPO8ZQbwOfUaMrKwuAYDA1qkH0hJFnZIF2fKrdj63quBE3S6bkJUlB6hd09SQjyOt/w531-h301/OIP+%25282%2529.jpg" width="531" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">If Americans could comprehend the amount of research that goes into media messaging, and how to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">frame</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">an issue to affect attitude change, they would forever shut off their televisions. For the political elite, America’s culture of free choice presents a problem, one they see as standing in the way of their grand vision of Utopia. They cannot force their agenda without some smooth-talking aimed at the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">moral base</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">of dissenters if they expect them to change their political positions. Even Biden’s recent tyrannical dictates, which many people accept as legitimate, demonstrate an understanding of political and moral framing of the issues. Millions across the country will accept his unconstitutional actions because of the effective methods used in presenting Covid-19 as a life-threatening pandemic.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="file:///C://Users/User/Documents/day_fiske_downing_trail_inpress_shifting_attitudes_using_moral_foundations_0.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Research has shown in numerous instances, that framing an issue within the moral confines of a targeted audience is often enough to shift opinions and gain compliance with an action they may otherwise reject.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">What is framing? According to the book <a href="https://wartafeminis.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/routledge-communication-series-richard-m.-perloff-the-dynamics-of-persuasion_-communication-and-attitudes-in-the-21st-century-routledge-2017.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Dynamics of Persuasion: Communications and Attitudes in the 21<span style="bottom: 1ex; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12.75px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">st</span> Century,</em></a> framing presents a relevant issue in a way that promotes the “problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation and treatment recommendations” of a media message. Researchers have found that people are not necessarily the rational thinkers they are assumed to be. Framing issues from a particular viewpoint has shown that people are very susceptible to simple twists of words and reversing of logic. When facts are presented differently, it changes how people respond to them. A common example is how the survival rates of surgery may be framed. If a doctor explains a certain procedure has a ninety percent survival rate in one instance and a ten percent fatality rate in the other, people respond to the ten percent fatality rate more, even though the information is the same. Cass Sunstein, Obama’s former regulatory czar, writes in his book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nudge</em> that framing works because people are “mindless, passive decision-makers.” He says people are not capable of thinking about how issues are framed, or if their opinions would change if they were presented differently.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">This is important to understand because there is a massive academic effort underway which seeks to determine the best ways to <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">shift political attitudes</u></em>. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the media framed the issue from the perspective that morality would dictate conformity with the measures taken to stop the spread. The media <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">persuaded</em> people into compliance through careful manipulation of the narrative based on what they know about the moral perspectives of the targeted population. Persuasion in politics, according to the book, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Political_Persuasion_and_Attitude_Change/nzfHh3spvQ0C?hl=en" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Political Persuasion and Attitude Change,</em></a> is about the number of people that can be talked into changing their position to the other side, or nudged into complying with political objectives. Understanding the moral base of those seen in need of an attitude shift is essential to get naysayers to comply with government goals that go against their moral reasoning and political orientations.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The art of persuasion has been used extensively in pushing people to accept the absurd during the Covid-19 psyop. The technique of <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/2021/08/10/covid-19-the-power-of-fear/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">fear-then-relief</a> suggests people ̶ after being exposed to a fear-causing stimulus ̶ become mindlessly compliant once that stimulus has been removed and they become overwhelmed with the sensation of being relieved. This deceptive method of persuasion was applied by keeping the population in a sustained state of panic and offering the vaccine as the only viable way of returning to normal. This worked on a large portion of the population; however, the insatiable thirst of the tyrants won’t be satisfied until there is a needle in every arm.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Another method of persuasion that has proven effective in shifting political opinions is Moral Foundations Theory. This model of behavioral change suggests that people’s political and social attitudes can be changed by framing an issue within the political orientations ̶ or moral foundations ̶ of those deemed in need of an attitude adjustment. Before discussing what is believed about the moral foundations of the politically aware, it is important to understand the different types of people who are most susceptible to attitude change techniques. According to an article entitled <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268111001879" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Persuasion, psychology and public choice</a>, the moderately aware citizenry who believes they have a basic understanding of political processes is the most targeted for persuasive communication strategies. This is because those on the two extremes, the ones paying no attention at all to anything, and those deeply rooted in their political worldviews, are <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">unlikely to need</em> persuasion or shift their attitudes in any way.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268111001879" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The third type of citizen is moderately sophisticated, and according to Zaller nearly all the “action” in political persuasion occurs in this group. They have at least some set of integrated beliefs about politics, and some understanding of means–ends relationships in policy. It is likely that they will pay attention to, and perhaps be convinced by, arguments that offer evidence for one position or another. And since many in this group are undecided in the early portions of campaigns, they provide a useful set of recruits for candidates and consultants. <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Unfortunately, since they also lack deep knowledge of policy problems, and have only partially integrated beliefs, they are also the most easily misled, and the most susceptible to facile and superficial arguments.</em></span></a>”</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">(In the study of persuasion, it is a reoccurring theme that the social scientists conducting these studies believe most people are too stupid to do any research on their own.)</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Using Moral Foundations Theory, the political elite and their media cohorts target those that are sitting on the sidelines with morally framed messages which fit in the parameters of their moral worldviews. In an article entitled <a href="file:///C://Users/User/Documents/day_fiske_downing_trail_inpress_shifting_attitudes_using_moral_foundations_0.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Shifting Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Using Moral Foundations Theory</a>, the authors discuss the methods used in framing political issues in a manner consistent with the moral values of liberals and conservatives. Like all studies in the social sciences, this one is rife with left-wing bias, particularly in how the morals of liberals and conservatives are described. There is some truth to their assertions, however. For example, liberal morals are described as being concerned with fairness and not wanting to do harm to others, whereas conservative morals are equated to respect for authority, loyalty to group identity, and purity of worldview. In most cases, liberals tend to show more loyalty to group identity than conservatives do but showing an ideological adherence to the liberty worldview is a right-wing trait to be sure. This is important because it is within this context that left-wing issues are framed to shift the opinions of conservatives to the left.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">This study was broken down by examining how the framing of issues swayed the beliefs of participants ̶ if at all ̶ from their moral foundations. In some cases, if a conservative issue was framed in a conservative moral framework, the opinions of conservatives became more embedded. This is referred to as the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">entrenching hypothesis</em>. In most cases, the same was true for liberals. The <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">persuasion hypotheses,</em> however, yielded some interesting results. When a left-wing issue was presented using an argument framed in the moral foundations assigned to conservatives, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">they were more likely to shift their opinions than liberals were</em>. This is done from the “purity to worldview” morality assigned to the right. A New York Times article entitled <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/opinion/sunday/the-key-to-political-persuasion.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Key to Political Persuasion</a> explained this using the issue of homosexual marriage. By framing the issue within the context of freedom and personal liberty, conservatives were brought to a point where they were willing to change their opinions.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/opinion/sunday/the-key-to-political-persuasion.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">“In one study, we presented liberals and conservatives with one of two messages in support of same-sex marriage. One message emphasized the need for equal rights for same-sex couples. This is the sort of fairness-based message that liberals typically advance for same-sex marriage. It is framed in terms of a value — equality — that research has shown resonates more strongly among liberals than conservatives. The other message was designed to appeal to values of patriotism and group loyalty, which have been shown to resonate more with conservatives. It argued that “same-sex couples are proud and patriotic Americans” who contribute to the American economy and society.”</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">By assigning moral values the way they have, they can also categorize conservatives as being uncompassionate for their unwillingness to shift their opinions on topics like gun control. In an article entitled <a href="https://thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-hayes/2016/06/i-am-an-ar-15-owner-and-ive-had-enough/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">I am an AR-15 Owner and I’ve had Enough</a>, Daniel Hayes attempts to sway opinions by stating he had a moral reformation, and the liberty mindset associated with the second amendment needs to be set aside for the safety of our communities. This is the same argument being made with mandatory vaccinations. As noted earlier, people with deeply rooted convictions who are actively engaged are generally not the targets of persuasive communications. <u style="box-sizing: inherit;">Most patriotic Americans who understand the significance of the second amendment </u>will not fall for this tactic. Many people who see gun ownership in terms of hunting and collecting, however, will. They are the target of such an article, and many of them can be persuaded into changing their views on gun ownership. The more of them that comply, the easier it is to label those that don’t as uncaring extremists.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The general, overarching theme in the study of persuasion is that people are not aware of their own cognitive processes to think about what they are doing. The study Shifting Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Using Moral Foundations Theory also incorporated the <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/uncategorized/understanding-reflexive-reaction-to-speech-and-the-elaboration-likelihood-model-of-persuasion/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion.</a> This model is working from the preconceived bias that people fall into two categories. Those who give a thoughtful analysis based on their own experiences, and the merits of the information before changing their position, and those who do not. This is known as taking the central or peripheral routes of persuasion. The peripheral route suggests that attitude change can occur because people’s ability to process the information is low, and all it takes is a simple stimulus to produce the desired change in attitude. The central route is just the opposite and requires tweaking of the message to meet the moral base and political orientations of the target. According to the book <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research</a>, it is necessary to separate the public into those who may have a genuine interest in the message, and those who do not, when it comes to crafting the information meant to shift attitudes and change opinions.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The political elite have an objective that a large portion of the population object to. In our nation, the term “the consent of the governed,” holds a lot of meaning. They can not push their agenda on us without our willingness to comply. Countless hours of research have gone into the study of psychology and persuasion, with the goal of understanding what motivates individuals to change their political opinions. It is more than a simple assumption to say these techniques are being used to push attitudes to the left. The authors of Shifting Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Using Moral Foundations Theory fully admit that the knowledge gained from their study would be useful in helping Democrats win elections. This shows the explicit bias in those conducting the study and what their aim is. Another aspect of their study showing their bias was the lack of an attempt to shift liberal opinions to the right by framing right-wing issues within the moral foundations of the left. They clearly have no interest in doing that as the left-wing worldview is presented as the morally correct position.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The bigger point of this article is the importance of studying and researching the issues. The people conducting these studies believe most of the population is not able to do so. If Americans understood the depth of this research they would likely be infuriated.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n29/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">“If we are to survive as free men, we must face up to the problem of politically inspired mental coercion, with all its ramifications.”</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">To learn more about this topic check out my book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Without-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning/dp/1633021912/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=david%20risselada&qid=1622799586&sr=8-2&fbclid=IwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-84901394959488793972021-09-06T14:49:00.001-07:002021-09-06T14:49:05.519-07:00Taking the Moral Imperative: Reframing the COVID-19 Narrative<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadElcG1IF5Ig_hfP8HnaYJDiYdu6EsQXEyKYuy3hlaqVr-2jhaOfHQhdoyDT8x30Dt0LRboQf0bEf09JxCsYsaEfotXyZ69eGD8o4zD1e0Uc6r5RPaUvwgbd2HGdR4Gr8NfmoC0QWJo9O/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="750" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadElcG1IF5Ig_hfP8HnaYJDiYdu6EsQXEyKYuy3hlaqVr-2jhaOfHQhdoyDT8x30Dt0LRboQf0bEf09JxCsYsaEfotXyZ69eGD8o4zD1e0Uc6r5RPaUvwgbd2HGdR4Gr8NfmoC0QWJo9O/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">One of the most disheartening aspects of the whole COVID-19 pandemic, (if it can be called that) is the lack of action on anyone’s part to call out the lies and contradictions so obvious to those paying attention. Sure, there are doctors, writers, and journalists who are tirelessly exposing such things to a frightened public, hoping to persuade them out of their self-induced hypnosis. I’m talking about the people who have the power to affect policy and perceptions on a larger scale. People were excited, for example, when Rand Paul was grilling Dr. Fauci over</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://ahrp.org/what-is-gain-of-function-research-who-is-at-high-risk/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">gain of function of research</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">. What happened to that? Since that time, the vaccine has been approved by the FDA, and our so-called representatives are sitting in silence, as people across the country are being forced to choose between their jobs or taking the vaccine.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/covid-19/employer-mandated-vaccines-informed-consent-and-the-nuremberg-code/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Employer-mandated vaccines</a> were first introduced by <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp2020926?articleTools=true" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The New England Journal of Medicine</a> as early as October 2020. They state employer mandates will avoid the possible “due-process” concerns of imposing legal penalties for noncompliance. They also cite the effectiveness of imposing vaccines as a requirement for children to be enrolled in school. In other words, conscripting employers to play the game has been part of the plan all along.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">How can Rand Paul, or anyone else for that matter, sit back and allow this to happen when just a few weeks ago he was arguing in front of God and country that Covid is a manufactured virus? Do we have to accept mandatory vaccines for a disease that was deliberately created to be more contagious? Interestingly enough, the NEJM article also states vaccines should only be mandated if there is a state of emergency and if a system of accountability is in place. As of right now, pharmaceutical companies are immune and employers cannot be held liable for adverse reactions.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">From the very beginning, the coronavirus narrative has been rife with inconsistencies, misperceptions, and outright lies. Any one of these on their own should have been enough to put an end to any of the Draconian measures originally taken to flatten the curve. The PCR test is a great example. Not only has it produced a <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">high rate of false positives,</a> the cycle count was deliberately set higher than it should have been to record a high number of cases. In January 2021, <a href="https://covidcalltohumanity.org/2021/01/27/who-lowers-cycle-thresholds-for-pcr-tests/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">the W.H.O. dropped this threshold</a>, which in turn, began to reflect a lower rate of infection. Many commentators suspected this was done to create the illusion of an effective vaccine. The false positives can most likely be attributed to the CDC <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">admitting there was no isolated virus sample from which the testing procedure was developed in the first place.</a></p><div class="theli-paragraph-5" id="theli-345690331" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><div class="ads_container" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">What does that matter? They created a synthetic sample of something they believed mimicked COVID-19. No big deal, right? People become angry when confronted with this information. “Follow the science,” they say. This admission is in the CDC’s own document detailing the procedures used in developing the testing process. What other science matters pertaining to this issue? In June 2021, the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">CDC withdrew the emergency authorization requests for the use of PCR testing, and urged the adoption of other testing procedures by the end of the year.</a> Procedures incidentally, that in their own words can differentiate between the Flu and COVID-19. Why?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Another massive lie that should have enraged the whole country, considering what they put us through in 2020, and what they are attempting to do now, is the admission by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_unlike_some_countries_if_someone_dies_with_covid-19_we_are_counting_that_as_a_covid-19_death.html#!" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Dr. Birx that if someone died </a><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_unlike_some_countries_if_someone_dies_with_covid-19_we_are_counting_that_as_a_covid-19_death.html#!" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">with</em></a><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_unlike_some_countries_if_someone_dies_with_covid-19_we_are_counting_that_as_a_covid-19_death.html#!" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"> COVID-19, the death was </a><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_unlike_some_countries_if_someone_dies_with_covid-19_we_are_counting_that_as_a_covid-19_death.html#!" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">attributed to</em></a><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_unlike_some_countries_if_someone_dies_with_covid-19_we_are_counting_that_as_a_covid-19_death.html#!" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"> COVID-19.</a> This led to the wildly exaggerated claim that 600,000 people were killed by the disease. It was also admitted by the CDC that <a href="https://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/cdc-admits-finacial-hospital-incentives-drove-up-covid-19-death-rates" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">hospitals were paid up to fifteen percent more in Medicare funding</a> to label people as COVID-19 positive, and this was responsible for driving up the death count. That doesn’t matter though, does it?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Read the rest at <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/2021/09/06/taking-the-moral-imperative-reframing-the-covid-19-narrative/?amp&fbclid=IwAR3X5W1mPLnSy5DweNT6miC0pgaUYAjs13abSsyviqNdzTSQgYCTmoc9hH0" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Liberty Loft </a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">To learn more about persuasion and behavioral manipulation be sure to check out my <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Without-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning/dp/1633021912/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=david%20risselada&qid=1622799586&sr=8-2&fbclid=IwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">latest book! </a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-60058955082682957762021-08-27T15:30:00.001-07:002021-08-27T15:30:08.132-07:00Manipulated language to gain vaccine compliance<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">The</span><a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine?fbclid=IwAR0bfr9fGQOekK0p_eaucDxYX6Feamm_lG7uWJi-ZQ-eT0Oepbi7O4jb0rY" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"> FDA approval of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">is the latest example of how</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/mainstream-media-keeping-the-public-trapped-in-a-constructed-narrative/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">language is manipulated</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">based on what they know about public attitudes and perceptions concerning the so-called pandemic. Studies meant to determine which measures need to be taken to gain the desired compliance are always conducted on the public through social media outlets. For instance, the journal,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://publichealth.jmir.org/2020/3/e20493/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">JMIR Public Health and Surveillance</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">ran a study where they infiltrated social media groups to gauge public perceptions concerning facemask use and social distancing. The purpose was to learn how to better frame their message in real-time in response to non-compliant attitudes. This study was so successful they state their intentions to use the same model to “study the perceptions of other interventions by public health authorities.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">One of these important health interventions is, of course, the vaccine. The message coming from the public health sector is that hesitant people can now feel safe in getting the shot because the FDA has issued its final approval. It is true, many people were unsure of the vaccine’s safety because it had not been approved by the FDA. This is an attitude that was likely learned through studies like the one published in the <a href="https://publichealth.jmir.org/2020/3/e20493/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">JMIR Journal</a>. I did a Google Scholar search on <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C37&q=studies+on+covid-19+vaccine+hesitancy&btnG=" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy</a> and there is no shortage of studies which purport to identify the reasons people are hesitant. It just so happens, there is one citing people’s concerns about the safety of the shot and its rapid pace of development in a journal called <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01459-7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Nature Medicine</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The vaccine has barely been available to the public for eight months, and they already have a model from which to study people’s attitudes and their hesitancy to get it. It is called “the 5C model of the drivers of vaccine hesitancy.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“The 5C model of the drivers of vaccine hesitancy’, provides five main individual person–level determinants for vaccine hesitancy: confidence, complacency, convenience (or constraints), risk calculation, and collective responsibility. Promoting the uptake of vaccines (particularly those against COVID-19) will require understanding whether people are willing to be vaccinated, the reasons why they are willing or unwilling to do so, and the most trusted sources of information in their decision-making.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">They do these studies, so they know how to target certain people for attitude change. It was found one of the most trusted sources for vaccine information was health care workers. Therefore, they use Doctors to push the message. It is also believed that most people trust Government. This was a key finding in a study <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293989/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">which sought to determine how to persuade people to wear facemasks in 2014.</a> Pushing the message that the FDA has approved the vaccine is specifically designed to target those who are unsure based on what they understand about the reasons people hesitate to get vaccinated.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Did the FDA approve the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, or is this just language designed to manipulate the public into believing they did? According to the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download?fbclid=IwAR3jDQpQxFluNY-VlEFp7532AZt4rTBYW5iK2anaMPCCUmSO2fZ0TYdQCzc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">FDA’s approval letter sent to Pfizer on August 23, 2021,</a> this so-called approval is nothing more than a continuation of the Emergency Use Authorization which they have been continually authorizing since its release. This is easily discernible in reading the letter.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“On December 11, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 for individuals 16 years of age and older pursuant to Section 564 of the Act. FDA reissued the letter of authorization on December 23, 2020, February 25, 2021, May 10, 2021, June 25, 2021, and August 12, 2021.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">On August 23, 2021, FDA approved the biologics license application (BLA) submitted by BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH for COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) for active immunization to prevent COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 in individuals 16 years of age and older. <u style="box-sizing: inherit;">On August 23, 2021, having concluded that revising this EUA is appropriate to protect the public health or safety under section 564(g)(2) of the Act, FDA is reissuing the August 12, 2021 letter of authorization in its entirety with revisions incorporated to clarify that the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">EUA will remain in place for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine </em>for the previously-authorized indication and uses, and to authorize use of COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) under this EUA for certain uses that are not included in the approved BLA.”</u></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">If you read that real close you will see they approved a vaccine called Comirnaty, which is not yet available, to give the illusion that they have given the Pfizer shot full authorization. The Phizer shot is still available under the EUA. This is deliberately misleading because they assume, based on years of research in communications and psychology, that most people will simply comply because the information is too hard to follow. It is believed the words, FDA approval, are that is needed to affect attitude change and gain compliance.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">In <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/opinion-covid-19-unquestioning-compliance-on-our-part-equates-to-research-data-on-theirs/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">my last article</a> I mentioned something called <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/mainstream-media-keeping-the-public-trapped-in-a-constructed-narrative/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">THE Heuristic/Sufficiency Principle</a>, which states people rarely take the time to retrieve pertinent information, from their memories, to apply it to a decision they must make now. This essentially means they do not believe you can research anything on your own or come to any sensible conclusions about the information they are giving you. There is also something called the <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/uncategorized/understanding-reflexive-reaction-to-speech-and-the-elaboration-likelihood-model-of-persuasion/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">This is a media model of persuasion which places people into two categories. Those who give a thoughtful analysis based on past experiences, and the merits of the information being presented into consideration before changing their position, and those who do not. This is known as taking the central or peripheral route of persuasion. The peripheral route suggests that attitude change can occur because people’s ability to process the information is low, and all it takes are simple <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/media-propaganda-and-the-health-belief-model-of-behavioral-change/?fbclid=IwAR3z3NBk-Sf0WDAKf78nbv5SivGFR3jJ84LgQ-9A1Ji1s6lwF59kV2acq_4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">“cues to action”</a> in the messaging to produce the desired effect. The central route is just the opposite and requires tweaking of the message. It is necessary to separate the public into those who may have a genuine interest in the message, and those who do not when it comes to crafting the information meant to influence behavior. The most important element is how the information presented is perceived to have a direct impact on the individual.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Another point of interest they surely believe you will not notice is in the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine?fbclid=IwAR0bfr9fGQOekK0p_eaucDxYX6Feamm_lG7uWJi-ZQ-eT0Oepbi7O4jb0rY" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">approval press release.</a> Towards the bottom, in the last paragraph before the section entitled Ongoing Safety Measures, it is admitted <u style="box-sizing: inherit;">by the FDA that the long-term health effects of this vaccine remain unknown. </u>This is because the trials were not conducted in the proper way. Vaccines typically go through a five-to-ten-year testing process. This one was fast-tracked and approved only under Emergency Use Authorization. Which of course, is one of the reasons people were so hesitant to get it. Now that the FDA has approved it, however….</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The bigger point of this article was again, to show that there is a concerted effort to use social science models of behavior to gauge public opinion, so they can tweak the message as necessary to gain the desired compliance with their vaccine agenda. Our attitudes and perceptions towards media messaging are always being evaluated, and they learn in real-time, through our participation in social media, what it is we believe and how to change the message. This is also known as propaganda.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-80329186162632191042021-08-22T11:14:00.003-07:002021-08-22T11:14:33.398-07:00Understanding the depth of the problem<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">Across the nation, there is an awakening, a heightened sense of encroaching government power that was never supposed to be. As if suddenly slapped out of a deep slumber, parents are realizing the schools they trust to educate their children are filling their heads with anti-American ideals,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/global-elite/critical-race-theory-as-a-theoretical-model-for-solving-social-problems/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">racism</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">, and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MacIverInstitute/videos/167359125482993" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">immoral ideas about human sexuality</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">In searching for solutions, many Americans cling to the misperception that voting for a political party, showing itself to be nothing but a slower march toward socialism, will bring the change they seek. Trapped in a misleading cycle of voting for the lesser of two evils, Americans have given their power away to politicians and their empty promises to steer the ship from the impending iceberg of totalitarianism. To come up with real solutions, the problem must be understood in its entirety, and unfortunately, those with the power to subvert the mind have convinced many that only a whacked-out conspiracy theorist thinks there is any problem at all.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“<a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n391/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The average American has no conception of the deep penetration of the Communist conspiracy inside The United Nations.</span></a>”</span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The above quote is from the book The Naked Communist. Cleon Skousen wrote it in <span class="s3" style="box-sizing: inherit;">1954</span> as a warning to how successfully the Marxist mindset <span class="s3" style="box-sizing: inherit;">had already</span> been implanted in the American consciousness. When it comes to the United Nations, there is little doubt that today, most Americans realize they are not on our side.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">There is a continuous push to pull the United States out of the U.N. as they are seen as a hostile organization, attempting to wrest our sovereignty and merge us into the coming global government. Americans fail to realize, however, just as Skousen said in ’54, just how entwined we are in the U.N. system. Especially concerning their influence on education.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Read the rest at <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/understanding-the-depth-of-the-problem/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Liberty Loft</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-41102458395474460312021-08-17T14:31:00.003-07:002021-08-17T14:31:43.183-07:00Subordinating the minds of those dumbed down by public education<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">Salon magazine ran an article </span><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/republicans-claim-to-fear-left-wing-authoritarianism-but-there-s-no-such-thing/ar-AANjXaL?ocid=msedgntp&fbclid=IwAR0uWk3Pgq8Zerp2VQPE0g4YNCqFa5AE4fHC2LlvBufSZA616v9ZTI6RueU" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">claiming that there is no such thing as left-wing authoritarianism,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> and the right pushes fear of left-wing policies to advance their own agenda. In fact, the author, </span><a href="https://www.salon.com/writer/cody_cain" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Cody Cain</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">, goes on to say that Republicans are responsible for pushing the biggest lies to win elections because ninety-nine percent of the population oppose republican governorship.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">This article is so filled with lies and deliberate misperceptions it is hard to know where to start. To claim, however, that the right must lie to win elections, or that right wing-policies lead to the most oppressive dictatorships is to ignore the most fundamental truths of leftism. They are godless and without a soul, and as evident by this Salon article, willing to do anything to sway opinion to their side.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The biggest point Cain makes is the typical argument made by the communist left that capitalism is the world’s greatest oppressor, and a great man named Karl Marx came about with an idea of how to eliminate it from the Earth. Not only did Marx seek to destroy Capitalism, he also sought to <a href="http://www.slp.org/pdf/marx/comm_man.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">dethrone God in the minds of men</a>. The conservative right cherishes the freedom of religion and does not come up with deceptive ways to deprive people of their right to be non-believers. In fact, in America, we respect the freedom of religion almost to our own detriment.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The Christian religion, to the communist, <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/global-elite/brock-chisholms-psychiatry-of-enduring-peace-and-social-progress/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">represents a system specifically designed to uphold the value system of the so-called bourgeoisie</a> against the proletariat. The very intent of the advent of communism was to set up a <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">dictatorship</span> of the proletariat to strip the wealth from the haves and give it to the have nots. To argue that there is no such thing as left-wing authoritarianism is about as delusional as it gets.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Read the rest at <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/subordinating-the-minds-of-those-dumbed-down-by-public-education/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Liberty Loft </a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-79961802613268062021-08-16T13:24:00.001-07:002021-08-16T13:24:04.938-07:00COVID-19: Corrupted means to a twisted end<p> <img alt="COVID, Communism, COVID Vaccine, Communist," src="https://thelibertyloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/LL-Article-Size-Photo-52-750x536.png" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/covid-19-the-power-of-fear/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">fear campaign</a> marches on, relentlessly targeting those choosing not to inject themselves with an experimental poison yet to receive FDA approval. It is evident that forced vaccinations and lockdowns are on the horizon, as cities in California and New York have already issued their unconstitutional vaccine decrees. While there is a resistance movement building, millions are mindlessly complying despite the contradicting evidence, showing COVID-19 to be an agenda focused on total control. For example, the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html?fbclid=IwAR0Iz9Ak3SrbwykfYiurZGtzHGr58pjNfIIyMLlE326ekJOJLjeh8LjZ2Ak" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">CDC</a> and <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The World Health Organization</a> both admit that PCR testing has produced high rates of false positives. In any sane country, this would have been enough to stop this agenda in its tracks. Unfortunately, very few are paying attention.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Another example shows that the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Covid-19 virus itself has never been isolated</a> (see page 40) as the new virus they claim it to be. This is important because the CDC clearly stated, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV were available for CDC use at the time the test was developed, and this study conducted.”</span> This explains the false positives as they developed the PCR test using something <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">other than</u></em> an isolated COVID-19 sample.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">While there are many sites which attempt to fact check this claim, this admission comes directly from the CDC concerning the development of the test producing false positives ̶ ̶ ̶ which have been driving the hysteria since the beginning. This should be raising some serious questions as this information is out there for all to see yet, it goes unnoticed by most. If people don’t pay attention and allow themselves to be motivated by fear, there is no reason for them to stop. Compliance equals permission to men seeking dominion over the minds of others.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/SilentWeaponsForQuietWars_201701/SilentWeaponsForQuietWars-letterFromTheAuthorOfTheManual-9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">A nation or a world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent.</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The average American is blissfully unaware of the differences between right and left-wing ideologies. The right, being driven mostly by Christian morality, is largely ignorant concerning the beliefs which drive leftist thinking. While many people are awakening <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n339/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(about seventy years too late)</a> to the globalist agenda, there has been a prevailing belief that it “would never happen in America.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The freedom to take responsibility for our lives and liberty, somewhere along the line, turned into the freedom to avoid the consequences of our actions. We stand not knowing what to do as the vaccine agenda is implemented because we have failed to heed the warnings and hold people accountable when we had the freedom to do so. If they pass laws, either on the local or national level mandating vaccines, there will be little that can be done about it. You can resist or refuse to comply, (this writer certainly will) but it will still be the law.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Read the rest on the means and ends morality behind the Covid-19 agenda at <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/covid-19-corrupted-means-to-a-twisted-end/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Liberty Loft </a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">To learn more about behavioral manipulation and Skinner’s science of behavior, check out my new book!</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-15025116706870513062021-08-11T13:36:00.001-07:002021-08-11T13:36:09.162-07:00Covid-19: The Power of Fear<p><span class="s2"><br /></span></p><p><span class="s2"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cTigIHhgi9g-8AqqL02phBYEzCt9mAF3pka58q0Xgsh9LSsPapLbs816NHYNyEayP8L6OJsu0CAP3WEzmo8WOGEHF6zvI7vKkdDSW9JvRGRGXt5FjOB6LTjzs8hdkfc_Nd2K7ckFa-zG/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="290" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7cTigIHhgi9g-8AqqL02phBYEzCt9mAF3pka58q0Xgsh9LSsPapLbs816NHYNyEayP8L6OJsu0CAP3WEzmo8WOGEHF6zvI7vKkdDSW9JvRGRGXt5FjOB6LTjzs8hdkfc_Nd2K7ckFa-zG/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span class="s2">Covid-19 has shown that fear of the unknown is a powerful motivator of behavioral change and decision-making. Despite experiencing different variations of the flu virus every year, Americans responded to the </span><span class="s3">novel-coronavirus </span><span class="s2">with mass compliance to mask mandates and shutdowns, while anticipating the quick arrival of a magical cure. Through weeks of lockdowns where businesses were destroyed and lives ruined, we were continually told a return to normal would come only when everyone is fully vaccinated.</span></p><p class="s5"><span class="s2">Human response to fear is something that has been under the </span><a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.390.5793&rep=rep1&type=pdf"><span class="s4">microscope for decades</span></a><span class="s2">. Since at least the 1930s, social scientists have been studying the effects of </span><span class="s3">fear appeals, or fear messages, </span><span class="s2">on human behavior. What is a fear appeal, and to what extent did an understanding of fear-based behavior shape the Covid-19 narrative?</span></p><p class="s5"><span class="s2">A fear appeal is a carefully contrived message meant to influence attitude and or, behavioral change. An effective message will </span><a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.390.5793&rep=rep1&type=pdf"><span class="s4">contain two elements ̶ ̶ ̶ the threat itself, and the recommended course of action.</span></a> <span class="s2">The appeal should focus on the intended target’s </span><a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/media-propaganda-and-the-health-belief-model-of-behavioral-change/"><span class="s4">perceptions</span></a><span class="s2"> of how the threat directly affects them. If the message is shaped correctly, it should make them believe there would be dire consequences for not complying with the recommended steps to alleviate the danger. According to the book, </span><a href="https://www.euro-book.net/books/K4m_DQAAQBAJ/the-dynamics-of-persuasion/richard-m-perloff/routledge/628/2016-12-19/9781317328872"><span class="s4">Dynamics of Persuasion: Communication and Attitudes in the 21</span></a><a href="https://www.euro-book.net/books/K4m_DQAAQBAJ/the-dynamics-of-persuasion/richard-m-perloff/routledge/628/2016-12-19/9781317328872"><span class="s6">st</span></a><a href="https://www.euro-book.net/books/K4m_DQAAQBAJ/the-dynamics-of-persuasion/richard-m-perloff/routledge/628/2016-12-19/9781317328872"><span class="s4"> Century,</span></a><span class="s2"> developing a fear-based message is an art “which requires an intricate understanding of human behavior.”</span></p><p class="s5"><span class="s2">One of the most influential studies concerning people’s reactions to media messaging occurred after the </span><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400852833/html"><span class="s4">War of the World’s radio broadcast</span></a><span class="s2"> in 1938. They conducted this study to examine the panic that ensued as millions of people reacted to the play as if they believed Earth was really being invaded by Martians.</span></p><p> </p><p>Read the rest of this article at <a href="https://thelibertyloft.com/covid-19-the-power-of-fear/">The Liberty Loft</a></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-26513404085533438492021-08-01T10:24:00.002-07:002021-08-01T10:35:35.483-07:00Free will, Karl Marx, and the use of the Health Belief Model of behavioral change<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3K77awDTZ3aO1tVknFfH3bOVUNPureVYZkYQGcZ8nhMIrh3d8W03nezAAz3O_Zeqd3M_gHT9NY9rOoXupv_GaL0zujhaM4fGavjKCqMhJSSAP3ju9tXIaI8691nSLBCaw9xmJXyMRTFMt/s322/hbm+picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="322" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3K77awDTZ3aO1tVknFfH3bOVUNPureVYZkYQGcZ8nhMIrh3d8W03nezAAz3O_Zeqd3M_gHT9NY9rOoXupv_GaL0zujhaM4fGavjKCqMhJSSAP3ju9tXIaI8691nSLBCaw9xmJXyMRTFMt/w478-h276/hbm+picture.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><br /></em></p><p><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">The convenience of leftism is the lack of moral restraint on behavior. For the communist has no truth other than the one useful to the moment. A reality dictated not by universal principle, but its relevance to the current political objective. (David Risselada)</em></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The propaganda is ramping up again, and it is achieving the desired effects on certain segments of the population. All around us, the fearful are once again donning their masks, as we are being told unvaccinated people pose the greatest danger to society. The vaccine, fast-tracked and brought to us by Donald Trump, is being pushed from both sides of the aisle, and it is becoming clearer every day, that they will attempt to lock us down again. Despite revelations from the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html?fbclid=IwAR0Iz9Ak3SrbwykfYiurZGtzHGr58pjNfIIyMLlE326ekJOJLjeh8LjZ2Ak" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">CDC concerning the ineffectiveness</a> of PCR tests in diagnosing Covid-19 (something we have known about since the spring of 2020), people still allow fear to control their minds. No matter how they try to twist this, PCR tests have been <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">producing false-positive rates all along</a>. Americans need to open their minds to the probability that the whacked-out conspiracy theorists are correct, and this is an agenda in pursuit of full-spectrum control over our lives. People need to accept the reality that the people they trust to decide what is best, do not share the same morality, and do not view human freedom the same way most of us do.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Living in a free country demands the robust questioning of authority. Failure to assert your will in defense of your own liberty equates to consent in the minds of men, who have an insatiable lust for power. (David Risselada)</em></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">How are men able to suppress the rights of others while depriving them of their humanity, and the dignity due all human beings? These men have no inherent quality that gives them divine right to rule over us. Yet, they have no qualms about denying us our God-given liberty as they attempt to acquire more power and wealth for themselves. Americans have failed to understand the motivations and beliefs of the Marxist’s thirst for control. Carefully contrived propaganda campaigns have reduced the threat of communist subversion in our nation to little more than a conspiracy theory. People have been conditioned, through stimulus-response programming, to automatically laugh off any mention of the possibility. This has allowed for the slow and steady infusion of the communist ideology into the public consciousness, along with the erosion of our most basic ideas concerning human freedom. A privilege gradually lost by failing to understand the premise of communist belief. Men cannot experience freedom because it does exist beyond the mere circumstances which control men’s choices.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Freedom in the sense that we understand it, with the ability to make choices in our best interest, is something Marx believed was not real <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n67/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Skousen, 1958, p. 46)</a>. Human behavior, from a communist point of view, is driven only by what Marx referred to as economic determinism <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n67/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Skousen, 1958, p. 44)</a>. This is the belief that men’s choices are dictated by their ability to survive the prevailing economic circumstances. Marx and Engels believed that self-preservation is the driving force behind all human action and, choices are made only to protect whichever mode of production is in use at the time <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n67/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Skousen, 1958, p. 44)</a>. Marx’s “activist theory” <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n67/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Skousen, 1958, p. 45)</a> suggests that men’s actions are dictated by impressions their brains take in from the surrounding environment. Environmental circumstances force men to make certain choices in their best interest. This is a sentiment echoed in modern psychology. Behaviorist B.F. Skinner stated in <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://selfdefinition.org/psychology/BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-%26-Dignity-1971.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Beyond Freedom and Dignity</a> </em>(1971, p. 101) that all studies of human behavior should be conducted from the view that choices are controlled by their surroundings, and by learning to control the environment, behavior can also be controlled.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </em>“As we learn more about the effects of the environment, we have less reason to attribute any part of human behavior to an autonomous controlling agent. And the second view shows a marked advantage when we begin to do something about behavior. Autonomous man is not easily changed: in fact, to the extent that he is autonomous, he is by definition not changeable at all. But the environment can be changed, and we are learning how to change it. The measures we use are those of physical and biological technology, but we use them in special ways to affect behavior.” <a href="https://selfdefinition.org/psychology/BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-%26-Dignity-1971.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Skinner, 1971, p. 101).</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">This view, considering the propaganda linked with coronavirus, has some major implications. Behaviors associated with Covid-19, and people’s willingness to adopt behavioral changes, are being viewed through something called <a href="https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/49289960/Health_Behavior___Health_Education_book_4th_Ed-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1627826776&Signature=YUomzZpo-WPtLfdtIXN9WXZQl7kxrkfx-zUcDAitGvGM5lVRTsV8DR5BrhLnkF5wCGWDxaCrkULtVH384S3~NQrcSB~diDa9PNV0H1tA40ntGWgWCuFu5qIiM-QmDn54TVP4qJeKjFI-QrLj1gGyGO--r3bHB8v0BBHkdY84My-DahHcN5W5WzNO92hmVMkIe5ksM3GReUUfqQdb6Rd0S4LBAaGZe7Ld8y9O-vvwICQRiRwDiZAcJMbpMRzgbGIexdBr-QIvLk7DdbpeY7xklOiJEkMwc0-IqVzR3RfPFyGQzIi7rIcwoo8B19ovmEd3osDhlWZ~MSFXX6K4mPdk9Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=83" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Health Belief Model</a>. Developed in the 1950s by social psychologists to determine why people fail to adopt recommended health behaviors <a href="https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/49289960/Health_Behavior___Health_Education_book_4th_Ed-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1627826776&Signature=YUomzZpo-WPtLfdtIXN9WXZQl7kxrkfx-zUcDAitGvGM5lVRTsV8DR5BrhLnkF5wCGWDxaCrkULtVH384S3~NQrcSB~diDa9PNV0H1tA40ntGWgWCuFu5qIiM-QmDn54TVP4qJeKjFI-QrLj1gGyGO--r3bHB8v0BBHkdY84My-DahHcN5W5WzNO92hmVMkIe5ksM3GReUUfqQdb6Rd0S4LBAaGZe7Ld8y9O-vvwICQRiRwDiZAcJMbpMRzgbGIexdBr-QIvLk7DdbpeY7xklOiJEkMwc0-IqVzR3RfPFyGQzIi7rIcwoo8B19ovmEd3osDhlWZ~MSFXX6K4mPdk9Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=83" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Champion & Skinner, 2008, p. 46)</a>, the HBM takes both a cognitive and <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">stimulus-response</em> approach to health-related behaviors. Taking the stimulus-response approach means it is believed people’s choices will be dictated by the circumstances surrounding them—by the stimuli being fed to them. This is evident from the constructs that make up the model. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Perceived</em> susceptibility, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">perceived</em> severity, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">perceived</em> benefits, and <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">perceived</em> barriers <a href="https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/49289960/Health_Behavior___Health_Education_book_4th_Ed-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1627826776&Signature=YUomzZpo-WPtLfdtIXN9WXZQl7kxrkfx-zUcDAitGvGM5lVRTsV8DR5BrhLnkF5wCGWDxaCrkULtVH384S3~NQrcSB~diDa9PNV0H1tA40ntGWgWCuFu5qIiM-QmDn54TVP4qJeKjFI-QrLj1gGyGO--r3bHB8v0BBHkdY84My-DahHcN5W5WzNO92hmVMkIe5ksM3GReUUfqQdb6Rd0S4LBAaGZe7Ld8y9O-vvwICQRiRwDiZAcJMbpMRzgbGIexdBr-QIvLk7DdbpeY7xklOiJEkMwc0-IqVzR3RfPFyGQzIi7rIcwoo8B19ovmEd3osDhlWZ~MSFXX6K4mPdk9Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=83" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Champion & Skinner, 2008, p. 47)</a>. The word perceived refers to public perceptions of the health threat and how adopting the recommended behavioral changes will affect them. If they perceive the threat of contracting Covid-19 to be significantly high, they are likely to adopt the recommended behavioral changes. Like accepting an <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X20316959" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">experimental vaccine</a>, for example. Another interesting aspect of the HBM is something they refer to as “cues to action” <a href="https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/49289960/Health_Behavior___Health_Education_book_4th_Ed-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1627826776&Signature=YUomzZpo-WPtLfdtIXN9WXZQl7kxrkfx-zUcDAitGvGM5lVRTsV8DR5BrhLnkF5wCGWDxaCrkULtVH384S3~NQrcSB~diDa9PNV0H1tA40ntGWgWCuFu5qIiM-QmDn54TVP4qJeKjFI-QrLj1gGyGO--r3bHB8v0BBHkdY84My-DahHcN5W5WzNO92hmVMkIe5ksM3GReUUfqQdb6Rd0S4LBAaGZe7Ld8y9O-vvwICQRiRwDiZAcJMbpMRzgbGIexdBr-QIvLk7DdbpeY7xklOiJEkMwc0-IqVzR3RfPFyGQzIi7rIcwoo8B19ovmEd3osDhlWZ~MSFXX6K4mPdk9Q__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=83" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Champion & Skinner, 2008, p. 48)</a>. This refers to the stimulus being used to motivate people to act. Champion and Skinner (2008, p. 48) suggest that bodily events, environmental circumstances, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">media publicity, and governmental policy </em>are effective cues in affecting behavioral change.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">There have been some interesting studies done using the HBM which relate to American’s experiences with Covid-19. One, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293989/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">concerning the use of facemasks</a>, determined the motivating factors in gaining compliance with mask-wearing in response to the threat of a respiratory virus. While it was conducted in 2014, it shows there was a reasonable assumption that people would comply with mask mandates in response to Covid-19 if the right “cues to action” were used.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“We found that individuals are more likely to wear facemasks due to the <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">perceived susceptibility</em></span> and <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">perceived severity</em> </span>of being afflicted with life-threatening diseases. Although perceived susceptibility appeared to be the most significant factor determining compliance, perceived benefits of mask-wearing were found to have significant effects on mask-wearing compliance as well. Perceived barriers include experience or perception of personal discomfort and sense of embarrassment. <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Media blitz and public health promotion activities supported by government agencies provide cues to increase the public’s usage of facemasks.</em></span>” <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4293989/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Sim, Moey, & Tan, 2014)</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">A <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X20316959" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">recent study</a>, published in the journal <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Vaccine</em>, used the Health Belief Model to determine how willing people would be to get the Covid-19 jab. This study found that people’s trust in government recommendations was a strong factor in determining a willingness to get the shot, while those that hesitated cited a mistrust in the vaccine manufacturers <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X20316959" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Wong, Wong, Hwang, et al)</a>. This study also stated that these factors were key in developing strategies for promoting the vaccine. This means that media messages meant to influence public opinion will work to create positive perceptions of vaccine companies while portraying the government as acting in the best interest of society. These studies are being conducted, partially, from the view that human beings are controlled by the surrounding environmental circumstances more than by their own free will. Skinner stated that science is learning to control and change the environment through the use of physical and biological technology, and they are used in “special ways to affect behavior” <a href="https://selfdefinition.org/psychology/BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-%26-Dignity-1971.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Skinner, 1971, p. 101)</a>. What does he mean by this, exactly? The possible answers, considering the information presented above, are frightening.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">There is a stark contrast between Marx’s view of free will and the Christian view. According to Marx, free will is nothing more “than the awareness of the impelling forces which move an individual to action; in taking action, he is not free to change the course his very nature dictates” <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n67/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Skousen, 1958, p. 46)</a>. Galatians 5:13, on the other hand, states that we are called to be free, and we have the freedom to choose whether we serve the flesh or one another in love. This clearly shows that men can choose between good and evil, or right and wrong. Concepts rejected by Marxists, as morals were viewed to be nothing more than bourgeois constructs, devised to protect their interests, wealth, and property <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n67/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Skousen, 1958, p. 51)</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The push to vaccinate all of humanity in response to Covid-19 is being done through the perspective of people who do not believe we can make any other choice but comply. Mask mandates, vaccine passports, employer required vaccines, are all <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">manipulations of the environment</em> which will eventually force our hand in one way or the other because according to Marx, we are all driven first and foremost, by the need for self-preservation. The Health Belief Model is a theoretical framework, based on the work of social psychologists, which examines health-related behaviors based on the public perception of the threat. The information gained from using the HBM is then used to further manipulate our perceptions and the surrounding environment to force compliance. The biggest problem the Marxists face is their beliefs are not true. America is still fundamentally, a Christian nation. The continued use of propaganda and models like the HBM are indicators that there is a <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">need to manipulate the environment</em> because people <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">are</em> thinking on their own and making decisions that do not fall in the purview of Marxism. If Marx’s view on free will were correct, and people’s behavior was controlled strictly through the environment, as Skinner suggests, there would be no need for the continued propaganda because we would have all complied already. To put it more simply, the recent propaganda is nothing more than a sign of desperation as Americans, along with the rest of the world, are rejecting the government-controlled narrative and the fear tactics used to push their poison. This is a good thing.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Champion, L. V. & Skinner, S.C. The Health Belief Model. From <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Health behavior and health education: theory, research, and practice</em>. 4<span style="bottom: 1ex; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12.75px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> ed. (2008) Jossey-Bass</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Sim, W.S., Moey, S. K. & Tan, C.N. (2014) The use of face masks to prevent respiratory infection: A literature review in the context of the Health Belief Model. Singapore medical journal, 55(3) pp. 160-167.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Skinner, B. F. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Beyond Freedom and Dignity</em>. (1971) Pelican Books, Middlesex England.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Skousen, C. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Naked Communist</em>. (1958) Izzard ink publishing</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Wong, M., Wong, E., Huang, J., Cheung, A., Law, K., Chong, M., Ng, R., Lai, C., Boon, S., Lan, J., Chen, Z. & Chan, P. (2021) Acceptance of the covid-19 vaccine based on the Health Belief Model: A population-based survey in Hong Kong. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Vaccine</em>, 39(7), pp. 1148-1156</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">To learn more about behavioral manipulation and Skinner's science of behavior, check out my new book!<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></p><p><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a></p><p><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" /></p><p> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-49189110271753565552021-07-25T09:51:00.001-07:002021-07-25T09:51:20.007-07:00Critical Race Theory as a theoretical framework for solving social problems<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-cSFsVgK2O6_H2AXpOkfKZO3jWO8p0oKalmseoo-V9bHMy_gI6ZmduNP21-xl_I17Q-qF5wPjBugQJPTfL5CMfg3CGs4YJ-RWRIiKIPr4976hhJUHOiUlYRio9dsXc2qNx06gypBgflaw/s249/crt+in+education.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="249" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-cSFsVgK2O6_H2AXpOkfKZO3jWO8p0oKalmseoo-V9bHMy_gI6ZmduNP21-xl_I17Q-qF5wPjBugQJPTfL5CMfg3CGs4YJ-RWRIiKIPr4976hhJUHOiUlYRio9dsXc2qNx06gypBgflaw/w442-h289/crt+in+education.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><br /><p>The nation’s attention has been drawn front and center to the use of Critical Race Theory in the classroom. Stories of schools portraying all white people and American institutions as racist, make the headline news on daily basis. The latest, from <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/24/professor-to-white-male-student-youre-breathing-you-may-have-oppressed-somebody-1107964/?fbclid=IwAR1cA7HEpPpr8g99q6_5wr9mkMxae9R7EdmhdOa2V-TdsdjFZY2XSaSwdQg">Pennsylvania State University</a>, involves a professor telling a student he’s oppressing someone because he stepped out of his house and took a breath. As radical as this sounds, it is the consequence of allowing liberalism to go unchecked on campus in the name of egalitarianism. While Americans are fighting back against the use of CRT, leftist professors are finding new ways to incorporate it in education. Critical Race Theory is not a lesson given to first graders to tell them white people are racist. It is a theoretical framework and analysis tool from which liberal scholars search for, and allegedly expose, the everyday racism of American society from education to health care.</p><p><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07/23/education-department-backs-off-promotion-of-group-espousing-critical-race-theory/">The Daily Signal</a> ran an article stating that the Biden administration backed off its support for an education group promoting the use of CRT. This may seem like a victory for many Americans, as the racially divisive educational tool is being portrayed as something new. CRT in education goes back to at least 1995 when, according to the book <em><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Critical_Race_Theory_in_Mathematics_Educ/jwuWDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Critical+Race+Theory+in+Mathematics+Education+&pg=PT8&printsec=frontcover">Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education</a>, </em>William F. Tate introduced it to the educational community as a theoretical framework for identifying the “racist underpinnings of standardized testing” (Davis & Jett, 2019, p. 7). Tate, author of <em><a href="https://www.unco.edu/education-behavioral-sciences/pdf/TowardaCRTEduca.pdf">Toward a Critical Race Theory in Education</a> </em>(1995)<em>, </em>which is considered a key piece of work influencing CRT scholars, was instrumental in shaping the way CRT is used in modern education. Currently serving as President of Louisiana State University, Tate eloquently states that Critical Race Theory is not something for the undergraduate student, but <a href="https://www.labudget.org/2021/06/2021-louisiana-legislative-session-a-return-to-somewhat-normal-2/">“a framework used in law school and PhD’s education to better understand how laws are formulated and the influence on law in everyday life.”</a> That is a bold statement highlighting exactly why it is a waste of time to focus on CRT in elementary education.</p><p>One of Tate’s essays, <em><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William-Tate/publication/249684458_School_Mathematics_and_African_American_Students_Thinking_Seriously_about_Opportunity-to-Learn_Standards/links/5698039d08ae1c4279053731/School-Mathematics-and-African-American-Students-Thinking-Seriously-about-Opportunity-to-Learn-Standards.pdf">School Mathematics and African American Students: Thinking Seriously about Opportunity-to-Learn</a>, </em>also written in 1995, illustrates how he incorporated Critical Race theorizing into mathematics education. Tate, looking at math through a CRT lens, believes math education is meant to maintain the status of social elites, and that African Americans have not been afforded the opportunity to learn higher mathematics, as it has been something used to keep them in a lower economic class. By using a CRT lens, Tate made the claim that math education has been cleverly used to hide discriminatory practices in fields such as health care (p. 432), for example, because they have not been taught the larger social roles mathematics play in developing models used in health care practices. He states that “those who have created such models have hidden their biased assumptions” and that it takes experts to expose this bias. Tate is also citing the role CRT plays in cognitively guided instruction. This view suggests that the thinking and everyday experiences of the students help shape the way they learn and understand math. Tate cited an article called <em><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002193478801900206">On the Education of Black Children in Mathematics</a> </em>where the authors claim that black students are often dismissed when discussing their personal experiences as they relate to math problems. This is because math has traditionally been something that does not involve social situations. By failing to do so, however, CRT scholars believe math education fails to prepare African American students for life in the United States. One of the examples presented highlights the ridiculousness of such an assertion. Students were given a math problem tasking them to figure out the better deal on a bus pass. A ride to and from work was one dollar and fifty cents each way, while a weekly pass was $16.00. For a five-day workweek, the daily pass was the better deal. Incorporating CRT, however, means that the assessment was set up from a white supremacist perspective because the five-day workweek is a white construct (Tate, 1995, p. 439). This is an example of how they incorporate CRT in education, and they have been doing this since at least, 1995.</p><p>If CRT as an educational tool is to be stopped, the focus must be on the academic work being done in the universities. For instance, the book <em><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Understanding_Critical_Race_Research_Met/JAF-DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Understanding+Critical+Race+Research+Methods+and+Methodologies&pg=PT9&printsec=frontcover">Understanding Critical Race Research and Methodologies: Lessons from the Field</a> </em>is a series of essays from left-wing scholars explaining how they have used CRT as a lens from which to view social problems and how to incorporate them in education. One such essay is entitled <em>Understanding the Why of Whiteness </em>(p. 13)<em>.</em> The author, James Donner, acknowledges an important fact concerning CRT scholarship. Much of it is based on what they refer to as counter-narrative, or, counter-story-telling, as a means of verifying racism in the United States. This is something also mentioned in the book <em><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Critical_Race_Theory_in_Education/ZwQHtuIMoHoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Critical+Race+Theory+in+Education:+All+God%E2%80%99s+Children+Got+a+song&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover">Critical Race Theory in Education: All God’s Children Got a song</a> </em>(2006, p. 3). Counter-storytelling relies on the stories told by people who have experienced racism. The problem, as Donnor (2018, p. 14) acknowledges, is there has been a lack of legal reference concerning these stories. In other words, a great deal of CRT scholarship is based on the idea that there is <em>perceived </em>discrimination, as it relies on the stories told by people who believe they are experiencing racism in America. The mission of CRT scholarship is to try to bring legal and historical precedence to the forefront of these stories in higher education. As Tate stated, it is not something for the undergraduate student. In another essay by Jerome Morris and Benjamin Parker entitled <em>CRT in Education</em> (p. 24), it is noted that any attempts to understand racial inequality through a CRT lens depends on considering the history of discrimination and how it affects racism today. “These considerations,” write Morris and Parker (2018, p.24) “are important because they provide varied perspectives to be distilled, interpreted, represented, and applied. The reconstructed product termed “history” is not the Truth, but rather the conclusions drawn from the resources employed, and the researcher’s interpretation of those resources.” Again, we have CRT scholars detailing the importance of oral histories and storytelling as the written record depicts the historical truths from the perspective of the oppressors.</p><p>If America is going to fix the growing problem of CRT in education, it is going to take more than demanding your children’s school refrain from its use. Critical Race Theory is a perspective being shaped and developed in our higher institutions of learning as a tool of analyzing social problems and implanting a permanent racial consciousness in the minds of young students. While many Americans find humor in the ridiculousness of college professors telling white students they are oppressing someone because they are breathing --- the disturbing reality is that attitude comes from serious scholars who have chosen to look at everything from a racialized perspective to prove America is racist. Critical Race Theory is a theoretical framework accepted by mainstream academia as a legitimate theory from which to engage in serious academic discourse. The work being done by these so-called scholars is the work disseminated down the chain, dictating the approach taken in elementary education. Stopping Critical Race Theory will require someone challenging the assertions on an academic level, within the institutions.</p><p>See my other articles on Critical Race Theory</p><p><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/critical-race-theory-is-the-social-construct/">Critical race theory is the social construct – In Defense of Our Nation</a></p><p><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/a-deeper-dive-into-the-origins-of-critical-race-theory/">A deeper dive into the origins of Critical Race Theory – In Defense of Our Nation</a></p><p><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/uncategorized/critical-race-theory-as-a-means-of-coercive-thought-reform/">Critical Race Theory as a means of coercive thought reform – In Defense of Our Nation</a></p><p><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/critical-theory-as-a-psychoanalytical-approach-to-the-social-social-pathology-of-racism/">Critical theory as a psychoanalytical approach to the social pathology of racism – In Defense of Our Nation</a></p><p><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/political-corruption/understanding-the-deeper-methodologies-driving-white-privilege-education/">Understanding the Deeper Methodologies Driving White Privilege Education. – In Defense of Our Nation</a></p><p><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/critical-race-theory-part-two-racist-mathematics/">Methodologies of Critical Race Theory Part Two: Racist Mathematics – In Defense of Our Nation</a></p><p>Davis, J. & Jett, C. C. Inserting mathematics into Critical Race Theory in Education. From Critical Race Theory in mathematics education. (2019) New York, Routledge.</p><p>Donnor, J. K. Understanding the Why of Whiteness: Negrophobia, segregation, and the legacy of white resistance to black education in Mississippi. From Understanding Critical Race research and methodologies (2018) New York, Routledge.</p><p>Monroe-Hamilton, T. (2021, July 24) Professor to white male student: ‘You’re breathing, you may have oppressed somebody.’ Bizpac review.com</p><p>Morris, E. J. & Parker, D. B. CRT in Education. From Understanding Critical Race research and methodologies (2018) New York, Routledge.</p><p>Stiff, V. L. & Harvey, B. W. (1988) On the education of black children in mathematics. <em>Journal of black studies, </em>19(2) pp. 190-203</p><p>Tate, F. W. Toward a Critical Race Theory in Education. From Critical Race Theory in Education: All God’s children got a song. (2006) New York, Routledge.</p><p>Tate, F. W. (1995) School Mathematics and African American students: Thinking seriously about opportunity-to-learn standards. <em>Educational administration quarterly,</em> 31(3) pp. 424-448</p><p>Tietz, K. (2021, July 23) Education department backs off promotion of group espousing Critical Race Theory. The Daily Signal.</p><p>Be sure to check out my latest book</p><p><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a></p><p><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" /></p><p> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-52743121892725021772021-07-18T08:38:00.006-07:002021-07-18T15:04:55.196-07:00Critical race theory is the social construct<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSP7X5txk2-tP9p6DM3AYtJChSM6GRCv6ei2QUnAEVGoQn8MYBssjnHNanpWonelR9Csk9qMmdn74p9Zeso5KCoGFu06u0vhvHc7BCqbTDvH281QSMBbaXAgVlkUKKAeFiXtXlCGVgavwA/s333/crt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="333" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSP7X5txk2-tP9p6DM3AYtJChSM6GRCv6ei2QUnAEVGoQn8MYBssjnHNanpWonelR9Csk9qMmdn74p9Zeso5KCoGFu06u0vhvHc7BCqbTDvH281QSMBbaXAgVlkUKKAeFiXtXlCGVgavwA/w407-h228/crt.jpg" width="407" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>The stage is being set for an epic battle over the role of Critical Race Theory in education as <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/more-states-ban-critical-race-theory/vi-AAMgSYt?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531">more states continue to ban its use</a>, and <a href="https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/nations-largest-teachers-union-goes-critical-race-theory-resolves-fight-anyone-opposed?fbclid=IwAR0I2gGJkKl0utq9xBcj0oNVNWLLhc2V6sUb6pGPkzBRanAXSctbGjT8vk0">teachers vow to continue teaching it.</a> To what extent do teachers even understand what they are teaching? Critical Race Theory, when thoroughly examined, presents itself as an ideology that justifies systems of racial preferences, as concepts like achievement and success are seen as white social constructs. Solving <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/critical-race-theory-part-two-racist-mathematics/">educational problems like achievement gaps</a> in math, are seen as attempts to hold minority students to standards built up to perpetuate white supremacy. Even the <a href="https://www.tampafp.com/michigan-state-university-professor-says-english-language-is-racist-used-to-reinforce-racism-and-violence/">English language</a> is now viewed as a tool that reinforces a racialized society by forcing non-English speakers into behavior patterns not conducive to their identity. How did language get pulled into CRT discourse in education and what is the end goal of stating the English language is racist? To examine this question, I will be reviewing an article entitled <em>Introducing Langcrit: Critical language and race theory</em> by Allison Crump, published in the journal, <em>Critical inquiry in language studies</em>.</p><p>While CRT scholars justify their opinions and their own racial biases by referring to everything in America as a white social construct, Critical Race Theory is little more than that itself. For example, Crump (2014) acknowledges that there is no current research model which evaluates how racism affects language use and that a Critical Race movement in English teaching has not taken hold. In response to this, she proposed an alternative approach called Critical language and race theory, or Langcrit for short. She is literally suggesting that language scholars incorporate the concepts of CRT and look for ways that race and <em>racism</em> interconnect “with issues of language, belonging, and identity” (Crump, 2014, pp. 207-208). If this does not fall in the framework of social construct, I do not know what does. Another example is from the book <em>Critical Race Theory in Education: All God’s Children got a Song. </em>On page 3 the authors admit that much of the academic discourse which has influenced Critical Race Theory over the past two decades has been influenced by what they refer to as, counter-stories to the mainstream narrative. Counter-stories refer to tales shared by individuals who believe they have experienced racism. While there is little doubt racism was a part of mainstream society at one point, relying on these stories to inform an academic theory that now dominates the educational discourse, is misguided. As I have stated before, they are looking for racism where none exists. Finally, CRT itself was founded on the idea that America’s civil rights movement had failed in delivering justice to racial discrimination in America. Derrick Bell, one of the theory’s key proponents, rejected the ideals of equality under the law and individual rights because they promoted a color-blind society (Crump, 2014). The only way to correct the course was to <u>develop a system</u> that viewed racism as more than an individual act, but something that reflects discrimination as being deeply ingrained in American institutions (Omi & Winant, 1994).</p><p>How does racism interconnect with language, belonging, and identity? According to Crump (2014, p. 208) an individual’s sense of self is swept away in national identity politics in a system that forces conformity through language use. In other words, white people force non-English speakers into identities not representative of their culture because they use language as a hierarchal system. Scholars examining language through the <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/">Critical Theory</a> lens have rejected language as a system of linguistics, and view it as a system that creates social boundaries, exercises power in a way that controls what other people can or can not do and, a tool that shapes identity (Crump, 2014). On page 216, Crump (2014) justifies the use of CRT in language studies by citing the work of other CRT scholars (Sarkar, M., Low, B., & Winer, L. (2007). Pour connecter avec les peeps). They argue that minorities feel social pressure to conform to “standards of whiteness” when operating outside of their own social spheres. They refer to these social spaces as the inner and outer spheres. The inner sphere is where non-English speakers are home and among other non-English speakers of their own cultural makeup. The outer sphere, they refer to as <u>white public space</u>. Non-English speakers are under so much pressure to conform to the boundaries set by the use of language, Sarkar, Low, & Winer (2007) argue, that they are unable to function at all, despite being competent bilinguals. Furthermore, they posit the idea that the outer sphere is one where people are judged solely against the norms of the dominant white culture, and nothing else. Crump’s <em>critical language and race theory</em> then, is a <em><u>constructed system</u></em> that proposes to look at language studies and <u>find ways</u> that CRT scholars can connect racism to identity, belonging, and language.</p><p>"LangCrit is a critical framework for language studies that recognize intersections of audible and visible identity in shaping possibilities for being and becoming. It is a lens that allows for an examination of how individual social practices and identity performances are connected to a larger eco-social system of discourses, policies, and practices. As discussed earlier, the key constructs of LangCrit (identity, language, and race) can be defined in multiple and contradictory ways. Though some of the definitions are problematic, this does not mean they can be ignored, since they still carry significant social force in determining possibilities for individuals." (Crump, 2014, p. 219)</p><p>This is one of the larger problems with trying to stop Critical Race Theory. You can ban its use by name, but the theoretical approach taken by people who are insistent on bringing racism into every issue cannot be stopped. The English language is considered a tool perpetuating White Supremacy because America hating liberal scholars have chosen to develop theories that justify their own pre-existing biases. CRT has penetrated nearly every aspect of our legal and educational systems. It is institutional racism that insists on looking at every issue through a racial, opposed to a colorblind, perspective. Merely banning it in elementary education is not enough. The so-called scholars that are looking for ways to intertwine racism into every subject need to be de-throned and removed from their positions of authority. It is highly unlikely that the high school teachers fighting to keep CRT in their school know the works cited here even exist. If they do then they are fighting for a social construct justifying a need for racial preferences.</p><p>Crump, A. (2014) Introducing Langcrit: Critical language and race theory. Critical inquiry in language studies 11(3) pp. 207-224</p><p>Dixon, A. D., & Rousseau, C. K. (2006). <em>Critical race theory in education: All god’s children got a song</em>. New York: Routledge. D</p><p>Omi, M., & Winant, H. (1994). Racial formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge</p><p>Sarkar, M., Low, B., & Winer, L. (2007). “Pour connecter avec les peeps”: Quebequicite´ and the Quebec hip-hop community. In M. Mantero (Ed.), Identity and second language learning: Culture, inquiry, and dialogic activity in educational contexts (pp. 351 –372). 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Covid-19, the emerging Delta variant, the vaccine, lockdowns, Critical Race Theory, mob violence, and the labeling of all opposed to big government as extremists, are all examples of political coercion meant to guide the public consciousness into the totalitarian mindset. A constant barrage of ceaseless propaganda depicting a nation in chaos keeps the masses on edge, not knowing which way to turn, as the same people who deliberately cause the problems hide behind their deceptive smiles and prefabricated solutions. Quick fixes which only lead to the loss of freedom for the individual, and increased power for the tyrant, push society closer to its inevitable end-complete government control. The elite’s knowledge of behavior and human psychology is a weapon more deadly than any rifle, finely tuned to take advantage of our responses to their campaigns of mass confusion. As we sit around thirsting for relaxation and entertainment, they continue to hone this weapon to a sharpened point. Only through a vigilant study of “politically inspired mental coercion, with all its ramifications” (Meerloo, 1961, p. 7.) can we expect to free ourselves from its grip and set the nation back on track.</p><p>Joost Meerloo’s book <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n199/mode/2up">Rape of the Mind</a></em> was a case study in the development of the totalitarian mindset and what it takes to resist the propaganda employed to turn a free nation into one controlled by tyrants. Meerloo, after being subject to Nazi interrogation techniques during WWII, became a psychiatrist for the allied forces and studied the effects of mass brainwashing on prison camp survivors. The first half of the book details what the Nazis knew of human behavior and how they exploited it. Much of what is known about human reactions to stress, fear and propaganda can be traced back to this time. Most of what Nazi Germany and the communists knew of behavior was based on Pavlovian psychology/conditioning. Their driving philosophies were Marxist in nature. Godlessness is what drove the totalitarian mindset, leading to the senseless slaughter of millions. Ironically, to solve this problem, Meerloo calls for the use of psychology in education and government to prevent the growth of the dictator mind. He writes that education, for example, “will be permeated with dependable psychological knowledge” (Meerloo, 1961, p. 183), and politicians would become “more secure in the strategy of world guidance” (Meerloo, 1961, p. 183) through understanding psychology. How has this worked out?</p><p>Brock Chisholm’s report <a href="Most%20of%20what%20Nazi%20Germany%20and%20the%20communists%20knew%20of%20behavior%20was%20based%20on%20Pavlovian">The Psychiatry of Peace and Social Progress</a> also calls for the use of psychology and psychiatry in preventing the atrocities committed during the twentieth century. Chisholm was a psychiatrist, and head of the World Health Organization after WWII. He believed psychology could eliminate what he viewed as the lowest common denominator in all societies-religious morality or the belief in absolute truths. This is the great paradox of our time as the debate between left and right rests on their beliefs pertaining to man’s origins. The left, clinging to a Darwinian view of man, believes we are animals whose behaviors are driven by instinct. The right, that we are divinely created, and we should strive to behave according to the immutable truths set forth by God’s word in the Bible. Chisholm believed it is the ideas of absolute good and evil which cause people’s feelings of inferiority, driving them to control other’s behaviors and beliefs. He writes that religious dogma prevents people from reasoning and enjoying their inclination to follow their natural urges (Chisholm, 1946, p. 8). This is an idea Meerloo alludes to as well as he suggests the true purpose of psychology is to “free man from his internal tensions by helping him understand what causes them” (Meerloo, 1961, p. 232). Liberating the human spirit and freeing men from the dependency of immature thinking, so that man can realize his full potential, is the true purpose of psychology (Meerloo, 1961, p. 232).</p><p>Most of today’s psychology revolves around the work of Pavlov and Skinner. The idea that man is not responsible for his own behavior, and environmental conditions govern his actions, is the predominant view. This is suggested in Skinner’s book <a href="https://selfdefinition.org/psychology/BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-%26-Dignity-1971.pdf">Beyond Freedom and Dignity</a> (p. 101). He breaks down human behavior into two categories, pre-scientific and scientific. Pre-scientific is the time they thought man to be in control of his own actions, and that his own free will allowed him the luxury of choosing his own course. Skinner rejected this for the scientific view, which argues that man’s behavior is traceable to our evolutionary past and controlled through environmental manipulation. Skinner writes that any study into behavior should be taken from the latter view because it allows for greater control (p. 101). The belief in free will is mostly tied to Christianity. It can be theoretically argued that free will is the concept which Chisholm thought led to beliefs like good and evil. Therefore, freeing men from the dependency of immature thinking, while allowing him the freedom to enjoy the inclination to follow natural urges, means guiding men away from the truths of God. Using psychology then, in education and school to solve men’s problems, or to prevent the totalitarian mindset, is counterproductive.</p><p>Psychology is largely a godless practice as it is a doctrine of man’s making and understanding. Just as Chisholm believed that religious dogma prevented people from developing the ability to reason-rhetorician Peter Ramus, who lived in the 1500s, believed men did not need religion or other moral doctrines to reason (Bizzell & Herzberg, 678) because reasonable thinking was an innate characteristic of man. It was better, according to Ramus, for men to develop the ability to reason, then pursue one’s own path to knowledge (Bizzell & Herzberg, 678). While all men pursue knowledge based on their own experience, denying the need for a moral doctrine in doing so can have lasting consequences. Ramus is considered a reformer in scientific thinking as many viewed his methods as a challenge to traditional scholasticism (Bizzell & Herzberg, 675). According to an article entitled <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00467600410001648751?journalCode=thed20">The quest for method: the legacy of Peter Ramus,</a> Ramus’s logic led to the idea of picking what should or should not be included in scientific inquiry. If science is supposed to be the bearer of truth, Peter Ramus set the stage for how it would be used to justify men’s own ideas. Ramus was known for shunning the work of Aristotle (Bizzell & Herzberg 675), which was based on the assertion of logic in pursuit of objectivity and absolutes.</p><p>Without a moral, philosophical underpinning in the pursuit of knowledge, men are free to reject self-evident truths which govern our nature in favor of desires which guide the lusts of the heart. Lack of moral clarity in scientific rigor today has led to transgenderism, Darwinism, movements that justify pedophilia, and the elimination of entire groups of people simply because they won’t conform. Meerloo argues for more psychology in schools and government to prevent the development of the totalitarian mindset. Because psychology is a doctrine of Godless men, it is impossible for psychology to be a solution in a world where God and morality exist as absolutes. As long as men are setting their sights on science to satisfy their own beliefs and biases, the march towards all-out despotism will continue. It is not a problem that can be solved by the doctrines of men.</p><p> </p><p>Bizzell, P. & Herzberg, B. (2001) <em>The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings From Classical Times To The Present 2<sup>nd</sup> Ed. </em>Boston. Bedford/St. Martin’s.</p><p>Chisholm, G. B. (1946). THE PSYCHIATRY OF ENDURING PEACE AND SOCIAL PROGRESS (THE REËSTABLISHMENT OF PEACETIME SOCIETY)-The William Alanson White Memorial Lectures, Second Series.<em> Psychiatry, 9</em>(1), 1.</p><p>Meerloo, J, A, M. <em>Rape of the Mind. </em>(1961) Martino Fine Books. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6421295206256219401/2186455148987186043"><em>Rape of The Mind</em>: Joost Meerloo: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive</a></p><p>Skinner, B. F. <em>Beyond Freedom and Dignity</em>. (1971) Pelican Books, Middlesex England. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6421295206256219401/2186455148987186043">BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-&-Dignity-1971.pdf (selfdefinition.org) </a></p><p>Triche, S., & McKnight, D. (2006) The quest for method: The legacy of Peter Ramus. <em>Journal of the history of education society,</em> 33(1).</p><p>Be sure to check out my latest book</p><p><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a></p><p><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" /></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-80472948686540370592021-07-04T08:48:00.005-07:002021-07-04T10:49:56.886-07:00A deeper dive into the origins of Critical Race Theory<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6g53f2UuG8X-pblLhWtcGno8WGiJScKfqmnJzK-2wisArBS7giCOVlBD7i4WHKcZNlD591P-g-ZCDCRtahteecd0YyC1oHomMtff9D3WkeobL5vdC1ADd6tJNM_RpN4mAAL4y4DnlOXu/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="334" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6g53f2UuG8X-pblLhWtcGno8WGiJScKfqmnJzK-2wisArBS7giCOVlBD7i4WHKcZNlD591P-g-ZCDCRtahteecd0YyC1oHomMtff9D3WkeobL5vdC1ADd6tJNM_RpN4mAAL4y4DnlOXu/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-is-critical-race-theory/ar-AALJpSM?ocid=msedgntp">MSN news</a> ran a story describing what Critical Race Theory is and why conservatives should not worry that it is being taught in public schools and universities across the nation. While their initial commentary is correct, CRT is a legal theory derived from the 1970s to examine the so-called failures of the civil rights movement, the writers fail to dive deeper into the radical philosophies of its proponents. For instance, they don’t discuss how <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/critical-race-theory-part-two-racist-mathematics/">education and achievement are “white constructs”</a> perpetuating white supremacy, as <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rochelle-Gutierrez-2/publication/259749651_The_Sociopolitical_Turn_in_Mathematics_Education/links/55a6bbdb08ae410caa74f36e/The-Sociopolitical-Turn-in-Mathematics-Education.pdf">Rochelle Gutierrez (2013)</a> suggests. Instead, in true leftist fashion, the writers at MSN attempt to ridicule conservatives, and their attempts to prevent CRT from being pushed on our children, while also insisting the underlying message that all white people are inherently racist, is unfounded. The deeper one dives into the non-sense that is CRT, however, the more they realize there is no way of escaping the accusations of systematic discrimination. Every aspect of our culture is something that pushes the myth of an oppressive society specifically designed for white people alone.</p><p>While <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/uncategorized/critical-race-theory-as-a-means-of-coercive-thought-reform/">many of my own articles focus on the relationship between CRT and its parent philosophy of Critical Theory</a>, many of the attitudes and beliefs being pushed in CRT go back to the early 1900s. This is important because systematic discrimination and inequalities of educational opportunity are key components of CRT. One of the major themes is the so-called achievement gap. As mentioned above, CRT considers achievement itself a white construct, and efforts to solve the achievement gap are nothing more than something that-</p><p>“offers little more than a static picture of inequities, supports deficit thinking and negative narratives about marginalized students, accepts a static notion of student identity, relies upon Whites as a comparison group, divides and categorizes students, ignores the largely overlapping distributions of student achievement, offers a “safe” proxy for talking about students of color without naming them, relies upon narrow definitions of learning and equity, and perpetuates the myth that the problem (and therefore solution) is technical in nature.” (Gutiérrez, 2008a).</p><p>This is the racism in education that leads to inequality and achievement gaps because it focuses too much on misconstrued interpretations of racial differences. Ironically, this line of thinking isn’t traced back to a white supremacist sporting a confederate flag, or one of our founding fathers for that matter. Instead, it comes from two black Americans known for being the first to earn doctoral degrees in America’s higher education system, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_G._Woodson">Carter G. Woodson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois">W. E. B. Du Bois</a>. According to the book <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Critical_Race_Theory_in_Education/ZwQHtuIMoHoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=critical+race+theory+in+education+&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover">Critical Race Theory in Education</a> (p. 14), these two men had a profound influence on the scholarly work contributing to today’s CRT. Woodson, who achieved a Ph.D. from Harvard University, took the view that education for blacks was “controlled by outside interests” <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-of-education-quarterly/article/abs/progressive-education-in-black-and-white-rereading-carter-g-woodsons-miseducation-of-the-negro/5218FA1F6F06731E3E2699371FEE85AE">(Snyder, 2015)</a> and reflected the “history, values and hierarchies of the oppressors” <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-of-education-quarterly/article/abs/progressive-education-in-black-and-white-rereading-carter-g-woodsons-miseducation-of-the-negro/5218FA1F6F06731E3E2699371FEE85AE">(Snyder, 2015).</a> In his book <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Mis_Education_of_the_Negro/8enNzFbUS54C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=miseducation+of+the+negro+pdf&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover">Miseducation of the Negro</a>, he makes the claim that blacks were taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Latin while dismissing their own culture (Woodson, 1933, p.1). Furthermore, he states that education in America at the time, put all its emphasis on white achievement, thus crushing the aspirations of black students (p. xii). The result was a race of people who felt inferior and lacked confidence in their own identity.</p><p><img alt="Image result for images of w.e.b dubois and carter woodson" src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.4egqm78r_b_O8cHDB2HPsgHaEK?w=312&h=180&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7" /></p><p>There is some truth to this when examining the concepts of biological racism. Darwin’s theory of evolution, for example, <a href="http://www.cchrstl.org/documents/racism.pdf">pushes the concept of racial inferiority based on evolutionary principles.</a> When examining the tenants of Critical Race Theory, it is the justification of creating systems of racial preferences, based on the preconceived notion of the racial superiority of whites, making up most of the theory. To argue, for example, that ability and achievement are white constructs black students cannot identify with, you would have to believe one race is superior is to another.</p><p>W.E.B. Dubois also had some interesting things to say about the place of black Americans in higher education. Dubois earned his Ph.D. in 1909 from Harvard and went on to become a professor at Atlanta University. He was also one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Those are some amazing accomplishments. You must wonder how he was able to do this in a system that encouraged him to view himself as inferior to whites. According to Ladsen-Billings and Tate (2016, p. 14), Dubois argued that black Americans are conflicted with a double identity. One they feel must conform with the hegemonic culture and the other which seeks to understand their own. Ladsen-Billings and Tate (p. 14) cite David Lewis’s biography of Dubois in saying that black Americans had a heightened sense of moral insight into American society as their thoughts continually dwelled on their oppressors and their wrongdoings. This could theoretically explain the philosophy of the superior virtue of the oppressed.</p><p>As mentioned earlier, the authors of Critical Race Theory in Education noted that the theories of these two men contributed greatly to the scholarly work that makes up today’s CRT. They also took note that they didn’t intend to diminish the work of other black scholars, who also earned Ph.D.’s from prestigious universities such as Harvard and Columbia but focused on these two who are considered “seminal thinkers” on the issues of race and racism. This raises some interesting questions those seeking to understand CRT must consider. Why did these two, who earned doctoral degrees on their own merits and abilities focus so much on racial grievances? Is it their attitudes and insistence that the systems they navigated are rife with racism, and that black Americans struggle with a conflict of identity in finding their place within them, that are leading to problems like the so-called achievement gap today? Why not teach young blacks that if they apply themselves as these two did, they can overcome anything? Consider the impact of being told your whole life that the system they force you to be a part of does not value you and in fact, considers you inferior. Would you try to do your best in that system? These are ideas, which CRT scholars admit, come from two of America’s first black Ph.D. recipients. Two people that could have set a whole different tone in racial relations simply by stating they achieved what they did through hard work and dedication. Even if American education was racist, these two persisted through it and didn’t let it stop them. Why not write books about how they did so?</p><p>Do you think that would have changed anything?</p><p> </p><p>Creating Racism: Psychiatry’s Betrayal. <em>Citizens Commission on Human Rights </em><a href="http://www.cchrstl.org/documents/racism.pdf">Creating Racism (cchrstl.org)</a></p><p>Gutiérrez, R. (2008a). A “gap gazing” fetish in mathematics education? Problematizing Research on the achievement gap. <em>Journal for Research in Mathematics Education,</em> 39(4), pp. 357–364.</p><p>Gutiérrez, R. (2013). The sociopolitical turn in mathematics education. <em>Journal for research in mathematics education,</em> 44(1), pp. 37-68</p><p>Ladsen-Billings & Tate, W. F. Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education. From <em>Critical Race Theory in Education</em> (2016). New York, Routledge.</p><p>Lewis, D. L. <em>W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919</em> (New York: Henry Holt, 1993), p. 281 (note: this citation was taken from the book Critical Race Theory in Education)</p><p>Pinon, N. (2021, July 4) What is Critical Race theory? msn.com</p><p>Snyder, J.A. (2015) Progressive Education in Black and White: Rereading Carter G. Woodson’s Miseducation of the Negro. <em>History of Education Quarterly</em>, 55(3) pp. 273-293</p><p>Woodson, C.G. <em>Miseducation of the Negro</em> (1933) The Associated Publishers</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Check out my new book</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></p><p> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-79503433530854558872021-06-30T15:09:00.001-07:002021-06-30T15:09:33.560-07:00Methodologies of Critical Race Theory 1 & 2<p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Understanding the deeper methodologies driving white privilege education</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">I started writing because of my experience in social work education. During the first semester, my professor flat out stated I was not fit for the profession because I opposed concepts like social justice and white privilege. They taught us America was a nation of systemic racism where white people have privileges that minorities do not have. Therefore, white people benefit from a system of oppression and, failing to question it means we are racist. This is the textbook definition of white privilege and it based on something called critical race theory.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">This was alarming to me because I realized they were stoking the flames of discontent and if not stopped, hatred and anger towards white people would only grow. How could it not? Students were being trained to believe that white people had the privilege of living in a society that was designed only for them. A decade later, white privilege education has grown into an uncontrollable monster. People driven by the need to find racism behind every corner are overwhelming our education system.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">For instance, in <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/nyc-school-asks-parents-reflect-whiteness-become-white-traitors/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_content=2021-02-17&utm_campaign=manualpost&fbclid=IwAR21D4DuNfuL55h2TwfOj5hKkfDzLfKGmKbSa9yLteYdEZLobZDaQLLAkeU" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">New York Cit</a>y, an elementary school principal has encouraged parents to evaluate the <a href="https://reverseracism.tumblr.com/post/57939811587/the-8-white-identities-by-barnor-hesse-breaking-down" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">eight identities of whiteness</a> which range from being a full-blown white supremacist on one end to an all-out white abolitionist on the other. The term white abolitionist means denying whiteness altogether to dismantle systematic power and privilege. The eight identities of whiteness allow white people to identify their own racism and where they are in their attempts to eliminate it. Only by working to completely dismantle white hegemony can one expect to overcome their own bigotry.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-416" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px" src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/white-identities-249x300.jpg" srcset="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/white-identities-249x300.jpg 249w, https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/white-identities.jpg 500w" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="249" /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">This is like the Helms racial identity model found in an article entitled <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J135v06n02_15" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Owning Whiteness: The Reinvention of Self and Practice</a> </em><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">(Blitz, 2008) </em>in the<em style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Journal of Emotional Abuse. </em>Under this model, whiteness is broken down into six categories<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">. </em>Contact, disintegration, reintegration, pseudo-independence, immersion/emergence, and autonomy. These phases start with a white person being aware of racial differences but being satisfied with the status quo. The next phase realizes that there are social implications to whiteness that cause feelings of guilt. Reintegration involves adopting the attitude that whites have it better than people of color and, denying any responsibility for their own racism. Next, there are the recovery phases, which include white people becoming dependent on persons of color to help them define their racial identity. White people who recover from whiteness (if you will) emerge with new ideas on morality, and how to approach discussions about how other white people deal with their own racism (Blitz, 2008).</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Unfortunately, many Americans remain blissfully unaware of how entrenched concepts like Critical Race Theory are in our education system. Having a degree in social work I have the added benefit of knowing where to find the latest news on white privilege education.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">For example, the journal <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.wpcjournal.com/article/view/18198" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Understanding and Dismantling Privilege</a> </em>published an article entitled <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Considerations for Using Critical Theory and Critical Context Analysis: A Research Note.</em> (Perez Huber, Gonzalez & Solorzano, 2018) The purpose of the article is to examine the best methods of determining whether there is racial bias in children’s books and the theoretical framework in which they should identify this bias. As a student at Liberty University, I took a class where we interpreted various stories through the lens of <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">critical theory</a>. This would entail any perspective that challenges what the left refers to as, the normative power structures. When examining children’s books for racial bias through a theoretical perspective like CRT, they are looking for anything that can fit that framework, even if the author did not intend it.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Along with CRT, the journal article above discusses two other theoretical perspectives from which they examine power and privilege. Critical multicultural analysis and critical context analysis. The first examines power relationships, looking for hidden ways in which dominant cultural ideologies are oppressing minorities. For example, if immigrants in a children’s book were portrayed as Mexican, Perez Huber, et al (2018), would claim the book is suggesting all Mexicans are immigrants. This is not true, of course, but for examining so-called hidden biases and implementing change, this would be the claim. Critical context analysis focuses on examining sociocultural elements of a story that may identify which characters may or may not have power and whose perspective the story is being told from (Perez Huber et al 2018).</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The larger point of Perez Huber et al’s article is the merging of these three theories to frame a theoretical approach to implementing CRT in all aspects of education. Critical context and multicultural analysis’ are the research methodologies being used to question children’s literature and, identify what the left would view as racist or biased. CRT is a way of interpreting it. Because critical race theory is just a theory, there is no truth in any of it. Much of this is based purely on the pre-existing biases of those conducting the studies. They are looking for racism because they are critical race theory scholars who, in the absence of race theories, would have nothing better to do than twiddle their thumbs.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">It is one thing to understand that they are teaching our children they are racists for being white. Taking the time to understand the perspectives and methodologies they operate from, to teach such things, is what we need if we are going to do something about it. They use theories like white privilege and critical race theory, along with words like systematic oppression to silence opposition and keep people afraid of speaking up.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The justifications used to prove this racism are laughable and only justified through the left’s ridiculous definitions of racism. For example, in the University of Oklahoma’s Master of Social Work Program I attended in 2013, we had a textbook that suggested a black woman was depressed because she sold herself out to the white man’s economic system and lost touch with her historic roots of oppression. As ridiculous as that sounds, the same concept is highlighted in the journal article I discussed. A critical analysis of the short story <a href="https://www.warrencountyschools.org/userfiles/2605/Classes/82664/The%20Circuit.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Circuit, </em></a>which is primarily about the triumphs of an immigrant and his journey to America, still highlights a system of white hegemony because the main character is pursuing the American dream (Perez Huber et al 2018). The implication being that the American culture is superior. According to Perez Huber et al (2018), the story pushes a racist narrative by focusing on the American dream and not the journey of the immigrant and, the struggles he endured as an immigrant.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">It is hoped that by writing articles like this I am making readers aware of the deeper methodologies the left is using to push their theories. At the end of chapter one of the book, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Naked Communist</a>,</em> Cleon Skousen said if we could just study and come to understand the problem of Marxism, we may be able to save humanity. Unfortunately, he said this nearly seventy years ago and since that time, the left’s agenda has advanced almost unnoticed in terms of how deeply they have infiltrated our educational institutions. We must understand what it is they are doing if we stand any chance of defeating it on an ideological level. My intent is to give readers the opportunity to review these sources for themselves.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><b>Methodologies of Critical Race Theory Part Two: Racist Mathematics</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">In my</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://defenseofournation.com/political-corruption/understanding-the-deeper-methodologies-driving-white-privilege-education/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">last article</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">, I discussed some methods being used to examine education through a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://www.wpcjournal.com/article/view/18198" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Critical Race Theory</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">perspective. Critical multicultural analysis and critical contextual analysis are research models used to examine power relationships and the ways dominant cultures allegedly, oppress minorities. These concepts are applied to mathematics as well. Math education has been viewed as a method of teaching problem solving and finding a universal truth through numbers. There are no politics or racial problems in math, it just is what it is. Two plus two will always be four. Critical race theorists, however, have suggested that mathematics education is a vehicle from which power and identity can either be built upon or oppressed because math prowess is a symbol of societal prestige. In this article, I will examine how CRT applies in math by reviewing an article called</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3093/1b0cd5911862f80400269901c556fe36038c.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The sociopolitical turn in mathematics education</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">, by Rochelle Gutiérrez.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Most people assume the use of CRT in math education suggests the idea that math itself is racist because minorities are not as capable. Looking at the attitudes of the political left and how they have argued the need for a welfare state and other programs like affirmative action, this is a fair assumption. This is the same attitude that prompts someone like President Biden to suggest minorities are not smart enough to use a computer to find the closest place to receive a vaccine. Democrats seem to argue that minorities need the government to create a level playing field. Critical race theory in math goes a little deeper than arguing math is a social construct that promotes racism because of a so-called achievement gap. CRT examines how individual power and identity develop based on the power structures determining what minority students should learn about math <a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3093/1b0cd5911862f80400269901c556fe36038c.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Gutierrez, 2013).</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Like all aspects of our society, the political left has turned something as politically neutral as mathematics into a quest for social justice. <a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3093/1b0cd5911862f80400269901c556fe36038c.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Gutierrez</a> (2013) argues math is a human invention. Therefore, it deals with issues of power and domination (Gutierrez, 2013). In my last article, I showed that much of this perspective represents a pre-existing bias, an already formed opinion that America is a racist society. By applying CRT to mathematics education, leftists scholars are seeking to transform mathematics in a way they suggest, balances societal privilege (Gutierrez, 2013). The key to achieving this, Gutierrez (2013) argues, is realizing politics in mathematics and other educational endeavors exist because they are man-made constructs. In other words, they are looking for racism where none exists. For example, in their book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZwQHtuIMoHoC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Dixon,+A.+D.,+%26+Rousseau,+C.+K.+(2006).+Critical+race+theory+in+education&ots=YjaNaQ4zaD&sig=eS0iQ4Ow1jn_3umQEb_xLyteBX0#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Critical Race Theory in Education</a></em>, Adrienne Dixon and Celia Rosseau admit their ideas are assumed, and not proven. They reject the idea of equality under the law, and other aspects of American society as a matter of preferring their own theoretical perspectives. They are choosing to look for racism under an already existing assumption that it exists everywhere.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Citing the book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Literacy: Reading the Word & the World </em>by Paulo Freire and Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Gutierrez (2013) highlights that the purpose of teaching social justice in math is to allow learners to identify their place within the dominant power structure and, analyze data in a way that allows them to expose injustices in society. Mathematics teachers using the CRT perspective should be working, Gutierrez (2013) claims, to deconstruct racism and show how “whiteness” is the dominant cultural viewpoint. Challenging assumptions about racial hierarchies should be the driving factor in applying CRT to mathematics education.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The development of an individual’s identity through a CRT perspective is a bit complex, and in many ways, a social construct of its own that allows them to make claims of racial domination and oppression. This is the perspective that suggests math is a racist power structure. Gutierrez (2013) argues that identity is not only defined by the individual but from the lens of others around them. This may be true, to a degree. What she is saying is that math is racist and a tool of social oppression because they teach it from a perspective of white normality. Gutierrez (2013) notes that success in math carries a certain prestige and that people who are unsuccessful in math are less smart than those who excel in it. She also refers, as many leftists do, to American meritocracy as a myth. Meaning the idea that we are all equally capable if we apply ourselves is something that is largely, untrue. This coincides with the attitude of the left that minorities need affirmative action and other programs to make things equal. Gutierrez is proving that it is the left’s demented worldview that sees minorities as being incapable.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">All math education should focus on carrying students as far as their abilities allow them to go. When ability and merit, however, are nothing but constructive myths, and the education system itself, something that is taught through the perspective of one dominant culture alone, this becomes an impossibility. Gutierrez (2013) argues that teaching math only to lessen the so-called achievement gap perpetuates whiteness and racism because it does not consider issues of identity. This is because the left views achievement also, from the perspective of white normality. In other words, comparing the abilities of minority students to standards held for white students perpetuates racism.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“Recognizing that the identities of individuals are constructed partly through the discourses that operate in mathematics education, we can begin to see how ability is socially constructed. The achievement gap is a perfect example. Although mainly concerned with the well-being of marginalized students (defined here as African American, Latina, American Indian/indigenous, working-class students, and English learners), mathematics education researchers who focus on the achievement gap support practices that often are against the best interests of those students. In fact, “gap gazing” offers little more than a static picture of inequities, supports deficit thinking and negative narratives about marginalized students, accepts a static notion of student identity, relies upon Whites as a comparison group, divides and categorizes students, ignores the largely overlapping distributions of student achievement, offers a “safe” proxy for talking about students of color without naming them, relies upon narrow definitions of learning and equity, and perpetuates the myth that the problem (and therefore solution) is technical in nature” (Gutiérrez, 2008a).</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">As I have said many times before. You must be a racist in the first place to think like this. Gutierrez is claiming that the perspectives of ability and merit from which they teach math, along with the idea that it is presented from a “position of whiteness,” is what creates the belief that minority students are inferior to whites. As if math itself is a construct that only white people understand. Gutierrez also claims that failing to teach math from a perspective that addresses issues of identity and power reduces students to nothing less than a standardized test score. This I agree with. Standardized tests are something that lowers standards for all students. I would also argue, however, that turning math into a sociopolitical issue, framing it from the perspective of people who have nothing better to do than find race in every issue for transformative change, has more to do with the idea that minorities are disadvantaged.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The lens from which the left views this issue is so black and white. It is as if there are no minority students who excel in mathematics. This is the problem with leftist thinking in general. They fail to recognize people on an individual level. They are obsessed with race because they are the ones who believe in the myth of white supremacy. I am terrible at math. I had to drop out of a metallurgy program because I could not grasp advanced trigonometry. Because of that, I naturally drifted towards something I was more suited for. Based on the left’s logic, are we to believe that there are no blacks or Hispanics that are good at math? Perhaps the larger problem here is that the truths of merit and individual efforts have been rejected by the left because they are determined to tear down the fabric of society so that they can build one to their own liking. One, no less, they refuse to see has failed time and time again. Perhaps the larger problem is that Critical Race Theory itself is the real social construct, based on <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Critical Theory,</a> thought up by people looking to transform society from one of individualism to collectivism.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Dixon, A. D., & Rousseau, C. K. (2006). <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Critical race theory in education: All god’s children got a song</em>. New York: Routledge. D</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Freire, P., & Macedo, D. (1987). <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Literacy: Reading the word and the world.</em> New York: Routledge</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Gutiérrez, R. (2008a). A “gap gazing” fetish in mathematics education? Problematizing research on the achievement gap. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Journal for Research in Mathematics Education,</em> 39(4), pp. 357–364.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Gutiérrez, R. (2013). The sociopolitical turn in mathematics education. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Journal for research in mathematics education,</em> 44(1), pp. 37-68</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-21864551489871860432021-06-27T10:12:00.002-07:002021-06-27T18:35:18.789-07:00Critical Race Theory as a means of coercive thought reform<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9jJ2Uh-ukSs6SIilE6NhXlEQL8Nr5z3MSVy55nfaDMJGzojaepJH-3uW7FvfAIEdif3gta0-8_CU_98VZcMZNtQIidwtb2EzyU1waRAp7R7NdoI5ESmxhdrlpPN7ulbwJnSzt_R8veggG/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="254" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9jJ2Uh-ukSs6SIilE6NhXlEQL8Nr5z3MSVy55nfaDMJGzojaepJH-3uW7FvfAIEdif3gta0-8_CU_98VZcMZNtQIidwtb2EzyU1waRAp7R7NdoI5ESmxhdrlpPN7ulbwJnSzt_R8veggG/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>In my writing’s on Critical Race Theory, I attempt to draw attention to the fact that the theory itself is more than a method of teaching kids America is racist, it is a tool of cultural transformation. For instance, in <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/critical-theory-as-a-psychoanalytical-approach-to-the-social-social-pathology-of-racism/"><em>Critical Theory as a psychoanalytical approach to the social pathology of racism</em></a>, I discuss the idea of CRT being used to treat racism like a collective illness requiring treatment. Critical theory, being used as a method of societal critique, took a psychoanalytic approach to criticize culture for transformative change. This required, according to <a href="https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/153922/1/Verov%C5%A1ek%20-%20Social%20Pathology%20%28Thesis%20Eleven%20accepted%29.pdf">Verovsek</a> (2019), self-reflection and self-awareness of one’s own attitudes before any corrective actions can be made. This is an important step in social critique because it induced feelings of guilt which in turn, prompts a willingness to go along with the program. Critical Race Theory, aside from simply teaching students that America is racist, or whites are privileged, is a tool of coercive persuasion and thought reform mimicking what the communists used in Mao’s cultural revolution.</p><p>My personal experience with Critical Race Theory involved writing an essay, a position paper, on my attitudes towards the concept of white privilege. After writing the paper, the instructor demanded we give a speech describing how we were unaware of our racist attitudes, and how our white privilege affected minorities. Anyone familiar with white privilege, or CRT, knows that virtually everything is racist because according to the left, we live in a system that promotes and supports white supremacy. There was no right course of action to take because being white has become the cardinal sin from which white people must redeem themselves. This is a carefully employed technique used in transforming one’s thoughts and behaviors to gain compliance and create new loyalties. For example, in an article entitled <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015"><em>Maoist discourse and the mobilization of emotions in revolutionary China</em></a>, Liu discusses the idea of guilt being used to force people to focus on their negative thoughts. Guilt in communist China, just as it is in Critical Race Theory, is a foregone conclusion <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015">(Liu, 2010)</a>. People were not just asked to confess their sins, or in the case of CRT, their privilege, but to provide personal examples and explain their understanding of how it affects other people <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015">(Liu, 2010)</a>. Language was shaped in a way that inferred guilt no matter which position you took because nearly everything became associated with the imperialist ideology. In CRT, nearly everything is blamed on white supremacy because the system we live in was built to enforce it.</p><p>According to Richard Ofshe, the public admission of guilt, along with the denouncing of what they deem as undesirable behaviors, prevents an individual from psychologically separating themselves from the experience. By forcing people to admit to crimes they are unsure they have committed, people become trapped in a cycle of mental uncertainty <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015">(Liu, 2010).</a> This can be particularly true when the crimes in question are presented collectively. In CRT, the very act of being white is the same as being born racist. This assertion in and of itself lacks any logic, further confusing the individual in question. According to Meerloo <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n29/mode/2up">(1961, p. 94)</a>, forced confessions and the public expression of shame provokes feelings of “childlike submissiveness” while also alleviating deep-rooted feelings of guilt that all people have. By submitting to, and aligning one's thoughts to the tenets of CRT, people can project their feelings of guilt onto others who refuse to do so.</p><p>It is one thing to put adults through this type of indoctrination but forcing it on elementary school children will not only result in unnecessary guilt but a population of people who cannot break away from the indoctrination and will submit to further brainwashing attempts. Ofshe describes coercive persuasion as an attempt to destroy an individual’s concept of self, create an unstable identity, and reinforce a need for peer approval. Critical Race theory attacks one’s allegiance to their own nation by claiming support for American ideals is intrinsically bigoted. By encouraging the personalization of guilt, the Chinese could induce feelings of self-doubt and instability among those targeted for behavioral change <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015">(Liu, 2010).</a> Children in elementary school are not old enough to have a self-identity. By introducing them to the ideas of race consciousness and CRT, the left aims to destroy any possibility of a positive pro-American self-identity developing by associating induced feelings of guilt with America’s so-called, racist past. According to Ofshe, the fear of humiliation or standing out from the crowd is a distinguishing feature of coercive persuasion. This coincides with B.F. Skinner’s <a href="https://selfdefinition.org/psychology/BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-%26-Dignity-1971.pdf">(1971, p. 72)</a> assertion that behavioral control can be easily attained through systems of social approval/disapproval. As I mention in my book, <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q"><em>Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</em></a>, critical theory is being used to introduce kids to new ways of thinking about their culture, and systems of rewards and punishments are used to reinforce these beliefs. According to Ofshe, behavioral/attitude change is best achieved when rewards and punishments for the group are tied to the weakest individual. This forces an individual who is resistant to the ideology to conform for fear of being humiliated or blamed for the group’s failure to progress. Individuals who fail to conform and admit their privilege/racism are shamed and isolated from the group. My refusal to conform, for example, resulted in their attempts to remove me from the social work program while also attempting to associate everything I said with racism.</p><p>“The change phase allows the individual an opportunity to escape punishing destabilization procedures by demonstrating that he or she has learned the proffered ideology, can demonstrate an ability to interpret reality in its own terms and is willing to participate in competition with peers to demonstrate zeal, through displays of commitment. In addition, to study and/or formal instruction, the techniques used to facilitate learning and the skill basis that can lead to opinion change include scheduling events that have predictable influencing consequences, rewarding certain conduct, and manipulating emotions to create punishing experiences. Some of the practices designed to promote influence might include requiring the target to assume responsibility for the progress of less- advanced "students," to become the responsibility of those further along in the program, to assume the role of a teacher of the ideology, or to develop ever more refined and detailed confession statements that recast the person's former life in terms of the required ideological position. Group structure is often manipulated by making rewards or punishments for an entire peer group contingent on the performance of the weakest person, requiring the group to utilize a vocabulary appropriate to the ideology, making status and privilege changes commensurate with behavioral compliance, subjecting the target to strong criticism and humiliation from peers for lack of progress, and peer monitoring for expressions of reservations or dissent. If progress is unsatisfactory, the individual can again be subjected to the punishing destabilization procedures used during unfreezing to undermine identity, to humiliate, and to provoke feelings of shame and guilt.” (Ofshe, 2000)</p><p>By destroying identity and associating previous beliefs with racism, those using Critical Race Theory are setting themselves up as being morally superior <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015">(Liu, 2010)</a>. The continued forcing of denunciation and admissions of guilt are necessary to ensure the ideology remains enforceable <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015">(Liu, 2010)</a>, and those pushing it are looked to for redemption. The goal, just as it is in all communist societies, is the creation of a new man free from the trappings of bourgeois society and willing to surrender their previous identities to a higher cause <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015">(Liu, 2010)</a>. In Communist China, Mao presented his system of communism as morally superior, as class warfare was used to demonize those considered the upper classes while victimizing the poor. In Critical Race Theory, whites are considered the upper class, and a system of racial preferences is presented as the morally acceptable solution. Black Americans, along with other minorities, are presented as victims of white privilege, incapable of competing in a system that purportedly exists solely to keep minorities down. There is no escaping the accusations of racism as every aspect of our society has been weaponized to trap individuals into the CRT narrative. For instance, in my article, <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/critical-race-theory-part-two-racist-mathematics/"><em>Methodologies of Critical Race Theory part two: Racist mathematics</em></a><em>, </em>I discussed the idea put forth by the <a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3093/1b0cd5911862f80400269901c556fe36038c.pdf"><em>Journal for research in mathematics education</em></a> that honest efforts to solve educational issues such as the achievement gap, for example, are in and of themselves, systems of whiteness because achievement is a white construct. In <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/cultural-marxism/critical-theory-as-a-psychoanalytical-approach-to-the-social-social-pathology-of-racism/"><em>Critical Theory as a psychoanalytical approach to the social pathology of racism</em></a>, I showed the conflicting ideologies of those pushing CRT by citing the book <a href="https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/lib/liberty/reader.action?docID=4714300&ppg=2"><em>Critical Race Theory: An Introduction</em></a>. On one hand, they argue race is a social construct, while also insisting that a color-blind approach to race issues only solves the most evident forms of discrimination. They also claim that white people fail to see the things all human beings have in common because we prefer to judge people based on the color of their skin. These two views cannot co-exist. Suggesting that achievement, for example, is a white construct, while arguing for a system of racial preferences because minorities cannot compete fairly in a free-market system, is judging people based on the left’s own racial biases.</p><p>Forced confessions and inducing feelings of guilt were methods employed by the communists in Mao’s cultural revolution. The goal was to create a new man, and a new way of thinking where individuals realigned their loyalties to a system Mao deemed as morally superior. Teaching children they are automatically racist by the virtue of being born white is done to destroy their identity, discredit the culture of their parents and ensure adherence to an ideology meant to culturally transform the nation. Systems of rewards and punishments are being used to force conformity in elementary schools based on what they have known about behavior and attitude change for decades. Children in elementary school know nothing of racism. Critical Race Theory is a method of thought reform using coercive persuasion methods meant to produce feelings of guilt and a hatred for one’s national identity. It is a tool of cultural transformation being used to change the consciousness of the younger generation to see everything from the twisted perspectives of the left.</p><p>Delgado, R., Stefanic, J., & Harris, A. <em>Critical race theory: An introduction </em>(2017) New York University Press <a href="https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/lib/liberty/reader.action?docID=4714300&ppg=2"><em>Critical Race Theory: An Introduction</em></a></p><p>Gutiérrez, R. (2008a). A “gap gazing” fetish in mathematics education? Problematizing research on the achievement gap. <a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3093/1b0cd5911862f80400269901c556fe36038c.pdf"><em>Journal for Research in Mathematics Education</em></a><em>,</em><em> </em>39(4), pp. 357–364.</p><p>Liu, Y. (2010) Maoist discourse and the mobilization of emotions in revolutionary China. <em>Modern China </em>36(3) pp. 329-362. <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0097700409360015">Sage Publications</a>.</p><p>Meerloo, J, A, M. <em>Rape of the Mind. </em>(1961) Martino Fine Books. <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n19/mode/2up"><em>Rape of The Mind</em>: Joost Meerloo: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive</a></p><p>Ofshe, R. J. Coercive persuasion and attitude change. From The encyclopedia of sociology, volume 1. (2000) Macmillan, New York.</p><p>Skinner, B. F. <em>Beyond Freedom and Dignity</em>. (1971) Pelican Books, Middlesex England. <a href="https://selfdefinition.org/psychology/BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-%26-Dignity-1971.pdf">BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-&-Dignity-1971.pdf (selfdefinition.org) </a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Be sure to check out my latest book</p><p><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a> </p><p><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" /></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-29840711103806826812021-06-20T09:57:00.008-07:002021-06-20T10:29:59.980-07:00 The Capital riots and the FBI infiltration of patriot groups<br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghsYufW4_yv22tFrpGDQPMe4vvZinvnbTqgI4OhnOQyPr-ItLLIs3mf3561WwxMQ3FPOhtgeW3PpvEkqDrHgF_DOyz5-IUZa7kfmww7yrlSVGNbiFTU5pHGStYdWzNk9sVlLTtND-2IiHo/s474/upside+down+flag.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghsYufW4_yv22tFrpGDQPMe4vvZinvnbTqgI4OhnOQyPr-ItLLIs3mf3561WwxMQ3FPOhtgeW3PpvEkqDrHgF_DOyz5-IUZa7kfmww7yrlSVGNbiFTU5pHGStYdWzNk9sVlLTtND-2IiHo/s320/upside+down+flag.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The U.S. government continues to insist that white supremacy and the patriot movement are the biggest threats facing the nation. This is despite the growing violence from groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Documents such as <em><a href="https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf">Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,</a> </em>portray anyone of a right-wing leaning who supports the second amendment, opposes illegal immigration, or questions government in any way, as potential extremists. Much of the current rhetoric revolves around the January six capital riots as the FBI is now warning Qanon supporters could transition from being “digital soldiers to taking action in the real world” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/fbi-qanon-warning-to-lawmakers/index.html">(CNN.com)</a>, whatever that means. There is speculation that the FBI played a part in infiltrating and even directing the events <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/tucker-carlson-fbi-agents-helped-plan-capitol-siege">(Shiver, 2021)</a> of January six. While this will likely be brushed off as wild conspiracy theory, the FBI has a long, documented history of targeting and infiltrating patriot groups under the illusions they pose a national security threat.</p><p>Does the FBI infiltrate different organizations to gather intelligence and/or orchestrate violent events? The term agent provocateur is often used to imply that a federal agent is behind the scenes encouraging acts of violence to make an arrest <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 1)</a>. Militia/patriot groups have been in the crosshairs since 1991 when the FBI ran an operation known as PATCON, which was short for patriot conspiracy, from ’91 to ’93 <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 2)</a>. The government used the term patriot to describe any group they deemed to be racist, militant, or anti-government <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 2)</a>. There is a reasonable expectation that the government, according to <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n1/mode/2up">Berger (p. 2)</a>, needs to investigate groups who espouse potentially violent beliefs and speech. Patriots, and the militia movement, have long been organizing under the beliefs that the government is waging a secret war against the values of the country (imagine that), and are working to strip citizens of their constitutionally protected rights <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 4 )</a> to usher in global government. In response to this movement, the FBI created its own militia to infiltrate the three groups believed to be preparing for a violent revolution against the government. This group was called the Veterans Aaryan Movement <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 2)</a>. While there was a substantial amount of chatter which led the FBI to believe there was a potential for violence, two years of investigations led to nothing that equated to more than first amendment implications <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 4)</a>. In fact, later investigations into PATCON revealed that many speeches given by militia members were taken out of context to give the impression that there was an “explicit call to violence” <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 4)</a>. This, of course, justified further spending and infiltration tactics, as the possibility of “theoretical crimes” based on speeches given by people the FBI themselves deemed as talkers and not doers, existed <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 3)</a>.</p><p>The fact of FBI infiltration into the militia/patriot movement reinforced the belief of agent provocateurs. <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">Berger (p. 21)</a> claims that the idea “outstrips reality,” suggesting that it is ridiculous to assume, despite the evidence of infiltrations, that the agents involved would assist their targets in carrying out violent crimes. The result of PATCON was increased paranoia and suspicion of government. <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">Berger (p. 21)</a> claims the term gained popularity to shift blame from someone caught in the act to government agents as the last line of legal defense, which holds no weight. Many people believe that Timothy McVeigh was guided and assisted by agent provocateurs <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(Berger, 2012, p. 21)</a> as he has a documented history of being in contact with the three groups initially targeted in the PATCON investigations.</p><p>Given this brief history of documented FBI infiltration, it stands to reason they may have played a role in the January six riots. There is evidence that the capital riots took on a similar demeanor to the alleged kidnapping of Governor Whitmer (D-MI) <a href="https://rairfoundation.com/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-crumbles-shocking-january-6th-parallels/">(Nal, 2021)</a>, as the same groups implicated in January, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and the Three Percenters, were involved in the plot to overthrow the Michigan state capital. According to <a href="https://rairfoundation.com/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-crumbles-shocking-january-6th-parallels/">Nal</a> (2021), five of the fourteen people involved were FBI informants. This comes as no surprise as it was revealed in March that a Proud Boys leader by the name of Joe Biggs, who was involved in the January six event, was also an FBI informant <a href="https://patriotssoapbox.com/opinion/joe-biggs-another-proud-boys-leader-exposed-as-fbi-informant/">(Verum, 2021)</a>. This is not the first time leaders of so-called right-wing movements would be exposed as provocateurs. Josh Kessler <a href="https://www.wnd.com/2017/08/setup-man-behind-white-supremacist-rally-supported-obama/">(WND)</a>, organizer of the 2017 Unite the Right rally attended by groups like The Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, was exposed as being an Obama Supporter and an organizer of the Occupy Wallstreet protests. While there is no proof, this suggests he was possibly acting as an informant to discredit the patriot movement.</p><p>There are other instances of agent provocateur activity. For example, in 2017 the FBI recruited a developmentally disabled teenager from Oklahoma City, who allegedly identified as a member of the Three Percenters, and coaxed him into bombing a bank <a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/fbi-groom-mentally-ill-right-wing-terrorist/">(Agorist, 2021).</a> According to the boy’s parents, who took the story national, the FBI provided their son with everything he needed, including a fake bomb, to carry out what he believed to be, a legitimate bombing. In yet another instance, FBI agents were exposed posing as Militia members during the Oregon mining standoff <a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/oregon-fire-marshall-resigns-exposing-undercover-fbi-agents-posing-militia/">(Vibes, 2016).</a> These agents were seen harassing locals and hanging around the local armory in an attempt to discredit the patriot movement in the eyes of the public.</p><p>Government attempts to infiltrate patriot groups and implicating them in acts of terror have equated to nothing more than mistrust of government. Every time a mass shooting occurs, for example, it is believed the shooter was a proxy of some kind, and the event was staged to push the gun control agenda. This theory is not thought up by paranoid conspiracy nuts but by a documented history of the FBI staging attacks and arresting the people they groomed to commit them. An article by Peter Aldous, in <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/fbi-entrapment#.uvrnrQ2Rk">Buzzfeed News</a>, shows another instance of the FBI providing fake bombs and stinger missiles to a Muslim individual who was known to be a Jew-hater. Even the judge acknowledged this individual could not have carried out this plot without the FBI’s planning. Drawing on a correlation to <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">Berger’s</a> report, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/fbi-entrapment#.uvrnrQ2Rk">Aldous</a> states this type of entrapment is legal provided there is a belief the individual is prone to committing these types of crimes. Berger <a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/page/n21/mode/2up">(p.3)</a> stated all that was needed to justify further infiltration was the belief that theoretical crimes could be committed in the future by the targeted groups. In other words, if the government doesn’t like a particular movement, it is legal for them to coax you into committing a crime if it is theoretically believed you are already inclined to commit one like it. <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-645-entrapment-elements">U.S. code 645-entrapment</a>, states that an individual’s willingness to participate in the activity offered by an undercover agent may be considered as a predisposition to committing the act without coercion, justifying the actions of undercover agents.</p><p>Government justifies the infiltration of patriot groups based on their own preconceived notions that they pose a threat to national security. Since the early ‘90s, militia groups have been targets of FBI efforts because of their belief that the government is attempting to dismantle the constitution and merge us into a global, communist government. These beliefs are enough to initiate investigations because it can be theorized they may commit a violent crime based on these beliefs. According to federal law, if the government believes an individual or a group is prone to committing a violent act, it is legally justifiable for them to coax you into carrying it out while providing the means to do so. The DHS report <a href="https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf">Rightwing Extremism:<br />Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,</a> labels everyone of a right-wing leaning as being “potentially radicalized.” Specifically, it mentions those who believe the government is working to dismantle the second amendment. The government is actively working to undermine gun rights. As the pro-2A movement grows in opposition to this agenda, the government has the manufactured justification, in the form of this report, to suspect that such groups may be prone to committing violent crimes. Based on the information presented in this article, it is justifiable in the eyes of the government, to coax any one of the groups listed in the DHS report into committing a crime because they are already viewed as being “potentially radicalized.” When it comes to the Capital riots and the <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/q-the-deceptive-nature-of-communism-on-full-display/">Q phenomenon,</a> there must be some consideration that it is a deliberately orchestrated plan to discredit the patriot movement in the eyes of the public. Patriotic Americans are the only thing standing in the way of the U.S. being completely absorbed into a global government. Presenting them as terrorists and white supremacists who are willing to storm the capital in defense of their racist president is certainly a way to achieve that. </p><p> </p><p>Be sure to check out my Latest book <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance To Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion. </a></p><p><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" /></p><p> </p><p>Agorist, M.<em> </em>(2017, August 17)<em> </em><em>Busted: Parents caught FBI in plot to force mentally ill son to be a rightwing terrorist.</em> <a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/fbi-groom-mentally-ill-right-wing-terrorist/">Freethoughtproject.com</a> </p><p>Aldous, P.<em> </em>(2015, November 17)<em> </em><em>How the FBI invents terror plots to catch wannabe Jihadi’s</em><i>. </i><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/fbi-entrapment#.uvrnrQ2Rk">Buzzfeednews.com</a> </p><p>Berger, J.M. (2012)<em> </em>The FBI’s secret war against the patriot movement, and how infiltration tactics relate to radicalizing influences.<em> </em><em><a href="https://archive.org/details/PatconTheFBIsSecretWarAgainstThePatriotMovement/mode/2up">New America Foundation: National Security Studies Program Policy Paper</a> </em></p><p><em>Read: </em><em>FBI warning to lawmakers that Qanon conspiracy theorists may become more violent.</em><em> </em>(2021) <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/fbi-qanon-warning-to-lawmakers/index.html">CNN.com</a></p><p>Shiver, P. (2021, June 17)<i> Tucker Carlson claims FBI agents almost certainly helped plot the January 6 capital siege. </i><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/tucker-carlson-fbi-agents-helped-plan-capitol-siege">TheBlaze.com</a> </p><p><em>Setup? Man behind white supremacist rally supported Obama</em><em>. </em>(2017) <a href="https://www.wnd.com/2017/08/setup-man-behind-white-supremacist-rally-supported-obama/">WND</a> </p><p>Nal, R. (2021, June 17)<em> </em><em>Whitmer kidnapping plot crumbles; shocking January 6 parallels</em><i>. </i><a href="https://rairfoundation.com/whitmer-kidnapping-plot-crumbles-shocking-january-6th-parallels/">Rairfoundation.com</a> </p><p>Verum, R. (2021, March 31) J<i>oe Biggs: Another Proud Boys leader exposed as FBI informant.</i> <a href="https://patriotssoapbox.com/opinion/joe-biggs-another-proud-boys-leader-exposed-as-fbi-informant/">Patriotsoapbox.com</a></p><p>Vibes, J. (2016, January 14) <em>Oregon fire chief catches FBI agents posing as militia, quits his job in protest</em>. <a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/oregon-fire-marshall-resigns-exposing-undercover-fbi-agents-posing-militia/">Freethoughtproject.com</a></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-32161517392795081002021-06-13T10:17:00.006-07:002021-06-13T13:09:21.426-07:00Critical theory as a psychoanalytical approach to the social pathology of racism<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KX10UEKs0lN5Wx3QPMoTaesiTuIaOKYhv3-vjGUqDMYpscDGQrCDkUadqy9pSKgbCZ4V7Y-5tkz4WYPO04bbd1OFgMKLTKsfHJAp_Fqk3N_OG0fJzf0QbuGHi76qx1KBlROlGHyZBWdU/s612/racism.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KX10UEKs0lN5Wx3QPMoTaesiTuIaOKYhv3-vjGUqDMYpscDGQrCDkUadqy9pSKgbCZ4V7Y-5tkz4WYPO04bbd1OFgMKLTKsfHJAp_Fqk3N_OG0fJzf0QbuGHi76qx1KBlROlGHyZBWdU/s320/racism.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I have tried to accomplish through writing is bringing awareness to the reality that there is truth to what many people consider discredited conspiracy theory. For example, a book I refer to often, <a href="https://israelect.com/reference/JackMohr/jm024a.htm#CHAPTER%20II">Brainwashing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics,</a> (Chapter 2, p. 8) has been disregarded as an illegitimate source, despite describing many things we are witnessing today. There are direct correlations between the writings of Lavrenti Beria and the real-world applications of critical theory/critical race theory, which will be the focus of this article. Mainly in the way communists view individuals within a society. For example, in the communist structure man is a political organism, not an individual. Just as a malfunctioning organ in an individual makes up a misalignment of the whole body, so too does disloyalty to the state represent a sickness in society. Man is made up of a body of cells which must work in harmonious alignment for the individual to function properly, so too is the state made up of a body of men which must align to state ideals. Disloyalty to the state is treated in much the same way a malfunctioning organ is, with medical treatment.</p><p>Critical theory is a method of critiquing culture for the purpose of transformative change. A product of The Frankfurt School of Social Research, the aim is to free man from oppression and create a world that empowers humanity <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/">(Bohman, 2005).</a> Because oppression takes many forms, many “<em>critical theories</em>” have developed. Critical race theory is one example. Feminist theory and the LGBT movement are also by-products of critical theory. Antonio Gramsci is credited for developing other theories of cultural criticism <a href="https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/lib/liberty/reader.action?docID=4714300&ppg=2">(Delgado, Stefanic & Harris, 2017, p. 5)</a>. His theory of <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/global-elite/hegemony-counter-hegemony-and-gramscis-war-of-position/">counter-hegemony and the “war of position”</a> developed because Marx’s ideas failed to unite the proletariat against the so-called bourgeois. The creation of other oppressed social groups, that share the status of being the underclass in a white supremacist hegemonic system, explains to a large degree the division we see in America today.</p><p>Critical theory is more than the mere criticism of society. It is a method of social change based on the idea that the society in question is suffering from a <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/sociology-and-social-reform/sociology-general-terms-and-concepts/social-pathology">social pathology</a>, a sickness that must be treated to properly align the nation. Racism, according to an article entitled <em><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02426.x">Exploring the psychology of white racism through naturalistic inquiry</a> </em>(D’Andrea & Daniels, 1999) is a social pathology that continues to affect the lives of millions daily. Critical race theory, which developed as early as the 1970s in response to what its founders viewed as the failure of the civil rights movement to bring justice to America’s race issue <a href="https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/lib/liberty/reader.action?docID=4714300&ppg=2">(Delgado, Stefanic & Harris, 2017, p. 4)</a>, is a way to treat this social pathology. CRT is more than saying America is racist. It views racism as a societal illness that requires a psychological treatment of the society, just as a malfunctioning organ requires medical treatment to bring the body into proper alignment. </p><p>The critical theory which evolved out of the Frankfurt school took an analytical, diagnostic approach to the critique of society which mirrored the way medicine approaches illness (Verovsek, 2019). The article <em><a href="https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/153922/1/Verov%C5%A1ek%20-%20Social%20Pathology%20%28Thesis%20Eleven%20accepted%29.pdf">Social criticism as medical diagnosis: On the role of social pathology and crisis within critical theory</a>, </em>by Peter Verovsek, argues that because any corrective action taken in society requires self-reflection and awareness as the second stage of social criticism, this approach is more in line with Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis (Verovsek, 2019). Marxist theory revolved around materialist philosophy, which was no longer suitable to address the social issues of modern society (Verovsek, 2019) because it fails to address the psychological reasons social pathologies arise (Allen, 2016). In the article, <em><a href="http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/praxis1313/files/2019/04/Allen-2016-Constellations-copy.pdf">Psychoanalysis and the methodology of critique,</a> </em>Amy Allen posits the idea that-</p><p>The methodology of critical theory can be understood as being somehow analogous to psychoanalytic technique. This analogy holds that the critical theorist stands in relation to the pathological social order as the analyst stands in relation to the analyst and that the aim of critical theory is to affect the diagnosis and, ultimately, the cure of social disorders or pathologies. (2016)</p><p>To put this in simpler terms, America, through the lens of critical theory/critical race theory, is being viewed as a society in need of psychoanalytic treatment. Systematic racism is a socially constructed term defining our nation, and her institutions, as being inflicted with the pathological disorder of racial hatred. The practical application of critical theory seeks to free the individual from the disease (Verovsek, 2019). A liberation, if you will, that frees the individual from any dependency on the treatment and allows him to act on his own accord to affect social change (Verovsek, 2019). Critical race theory, despite just now coming into the public consciousness, has been embedded in our education and legal system for decades. The reason the issues of race, white privilege, and systematic oppression are being thrust into the consciousness of our children is because self-reflection and self-awareness remain the core philosophies of behavioral and structural change driving critical theory’s application (Verovsek, 2019). Children, under the guise of critical race theory, are being forced to be self-critical and self-aware of concepts they are barely old enough to understand. </p><p>Here is where it gets interesting. The founder of critical theory, Max Horkheimer, was not concerned with discovering truth as it is understood by the natural sciences (Verovsek, 2019). This could be related to the claim made by Raymond Bauer in <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/newmaninsovietps00baue/page/n27/mode/2up">The new man in Soviet Psychiatry</a>, </em>(1952, p. 26) that the Soviet Union issued a decree introducing the dialectical process of materialist philosophy to the scientific method, particularly concerning human behavior. Therefore, the objectivity of the problem-solving approach, based on critical theory, is questioned (Verovsek, 2019) as the problem itself may be identifiable, but the treatment, based on some grand utopian vision of the world (Verosvek, 2019) remains largely subjective. This means the idea of accusing the entire nation and her history, culture, and identity, of being racist to solve the so-called problem of racism, is delusional and only based on the opinions of those employing the method.</p><p>Critical race theory has ignited a firestorm of opposition in recent months. The reason for this can be found in the psychoanalytic approach of critical theory. According to Verosvek (2019), Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis posited the idea that introducing reasoned information can give rise to resistance and cause one to give excuses for pathological behavior. This can be viewed from either the right or left view. D’Andrea and Daniels (1999) have argued that explaining why America is racist has resulted in exactly that. The rationalizing of racist behavior justifying systematic discrimination. The more they push this theory the more resistance builds not to justify, or make excuses for our racism, but to show the hypocrisy of the left’s position. For instance, the book <em><a href="https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/lib/liberty/reader.action?docID=4714300&ppg=2">Critical Race Theory: An Introduction</a> </em>(Delgado, Stefanic & Harris, 2017, p. 8), makes the contradictory claim that taking a color-blind approach can only solve the most elemental causes of discrimination while also claiming that race is socially constructed and that we ignore the things that all humans have in common in favor of judging people on their skin color. Those two views cannot co-exist. If we as Americans take a color-blind approach it is because we see the similarities which bind us as human beings. We genuinely believe in the principle of equality under the law, whereas the first tenet of CRT, is to question that notion. The left wants to find racism in everything because it is racism that is being used as a vehicle of transformative change. On this topic, Amy Allen stated the following-</p><p>insofar as critical theory is a project of rational insight or enlightenment, it is not only insufficient for motivating emancipatory social change … but that it may actually be counterproductive. (2016)</p><p>While this article focused on the finer points of critical theory and critical race theory, the bigger point was drawing a correlation to what many people consider to be a conspiracy. The book <a href="https://israelect.com/reference/JackMohr/jm024a.htm#CHAPTER%20II">Brainwashing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics</a>, is described as being the writings of Lavrenti Beria and the psychological methods of indoctrinating a nation into the tenets of communism, without them even being aware. Chapter two discusses the view that man is nothing but a political organism who is a part of a larger body, the state. This article showed that the application of critical theory is incorporated very much in keeping with that view. That society itself is sick and to fix the problem, the individual cells which make up the larger body must be corrected.</p><p> </p><p>Allen, A. (2016) Psychoanalysis and the methodology of critique. <em>Constellations,</em> 23(2) pp. 244-253.</p><p>Boham, J. (2015) Critical Theory. <em>Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy </em><a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/">Critical Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)</a></p><p><a href="https://israelect.com/reference/JackMohr/jm024a.htm#CHAPTER%20II">Brainwashing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics</a>,</p><p>Bruner, J. S. (1952) Foreword in The New Man in Soviet Psychology, p. xx. London. Oxford University Press.</p><p>D’Andrea, M., & Daniels, J. (1999) Exploring the psychology of white racism through naturalistic inquiry. <em>Journal of counseling and development </em>77(1) pp. 93-101</p><p>Delgado, R., Stefanic, J., & Harris, A. <em>Critical race theory: An introduction </em>(2017) New York University Press</p><p>Verovsek, P. (2019) Social criticism as medical diagnosis: On the role of social pathology and crisis within critical theory. <em>Thesis eleven, </em>155(1) pp. 109-126 </p><p>Be sure to check out my new book:</p><p><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJfPZXsXqsb2Nov4jzH_7yH3XP1BHT6HcF2LTH3rMXrcvFbd8s2V9_CWSvO_SjfYXnIoKYt87dRzAOU5dz-5kvDdh0xZiW6pU0JzbQzYMmKUoyDzYvX6JZXzanNxTEp5HNuS76bsJzzop/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="426" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJfPZXsXqsb2Nov4jzH_7yH3XP1BHT6HcF2LTH3rMXrcvFbd8s2V9_CWSvO_SjfYXnIoKYt87dRzAOU5dz-5kvDdh0xZiW6pU0JzbQzYMmKUoyDzYvX6JZXzanNxTEp5HNuS76bsJzzop/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><img src="https://defenseofournation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/book.jpg" /></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-82001342451785888562021-06-06T07:37:00.006-07:002021-06-06T10:17:59.861-07:00The disturbing reality Americans are awakening to<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_-bW3xc170up04HsQmCFCBvXGGKSH3eAcG29jezXhn8UVZvKqD1QTMsqUpMA7W5iDMzX5RlU0ohBsybXhOo4RnykRqVFaX84qhERanQFSMQWghqaaFFOMiQeCk-GqR76UShaiuM5CpJA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="426" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_-bW3xc170up04HsQmCFCBvXGGKSH3eAcG29jezXhn8UVZvKqD1QTMsqUpMA7W5iDMzX5RlU0ohBsybXhOo4RnykRqVFaX84qhERanQFSMQWghqaaFFOMiQeCk-GqR76UShaiuM5CpJA/w454-h260/image.png" width="454" /></a></div><br />Check out my new book <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a><p></p><p> </p><p>American’s are awakening to a disturbing reality. A truth that questions not only the trust they place in public officials but their ability to realize they are being propagandized. After a year and a half of constant fear-mongering, contradictory information, forced mask-wearing, and draconian lockdowns which cost many people everything, Covid-19 is being revealed for what it is, a lie. Not that the virus itself wasn’t making people sick, only that from the beginning, the information being presented was contradictory enough to warrant healthy skepticism. For example, Dr. Fauci published an article in <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387?query=RP">The New England Journal of Medicine</a> as early as March 2020, admitting that Covid-19 would be no more serious than seasonal flu with a death rate of less than one percent. Throughout the so-called pandemic, it was revealed that the PCR tests were producing false-positive rates, death numbers were inflated with deaths by comorbidities, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/birx-says-government-is-classifying-all-deaths-of-patients-with-coronavirus-as-covid-19-deaths-regardless-of-cause">which was admitted by Dr. Birx</a>, and it was discovered the consequences of the lockdowns were far more devastating than the virus itself. The latest news is that Dr. Fauci’s emails revealed he funded gain of function research and knew that the Covid virus <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fauci-coronavirus-emails-genomic/2021/06/02/id/1023610/">was “potentially” manufactured in the Wuhan lab</a>. He also knew that wearing masks would do nothing to prevent healthy people from getting sick, as masks are designed to keep sick people from spreading an illness. Despite all the contradictions many Americans continue to comply by wearing masks and/or getting vaccinated. The whole situation gives credibility to Cass Sunstein’s assertion that people do not what to do with information that contradicts their previously held beliefs (Sunstein & Thaler, 2008, p. 37).</p><p>"Devising an effective fear appeal, is to some extent, an art, but it is an art that requires a scientist’s appreciation of the intricacies of human behavior. (Perloff, Dynamics of Persuasion: Communication and Attitudes in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century)"</p><p>There is little doubt that the agenda was to shock the public into a state of consciousness where they would comply with any mandate which promised a return to “normalcy.” A consistent theme I have been discussing revolves around the idea of understanding how they employ propaganda so we can resist it. Joost Meerloo, in <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n29/mode/2up">Rape of the Mind</a>, for example, said that “If we are to survive as free men, we must face up to the problem of politically inspired mental coercion, with all its ramifications” (1961, p. 7). Cleon Skousen said in <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n29/mode/2up">The Naked Communist</a> “that if all men would study the problem and move across the world in one vast united front, we may achieve true freedom in our lifetime” (1958, p. 6). The common denominator here is if people don’t take the time to understand propaganda, they can never see through it. What is it that we are to understand? What do we study? The answer to those questions is as disturbing as it is simple. If people are to resist propaganda, they must understand that the global elite, the powers that be, the “deep state” have a very thorough understanding of human behavior and knew going into Covid-19 exactly what our responses would be and how to get us to comply.</p><p>In my new book <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5b0%5d=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion</a> I discuss fear and what it is they understand about our reactions to it. When it comes to Covid-19, they based their predictions on something called the <a href="https://indefenseofournation.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-facemask-study-and-health-belief.html">Health Belief Model</a> of behavioral change. There are several fear-based models from which they view our behavior and attempt to manipulate it. The Health Belief Model is the most pertinent because it revolves around people’s perception to health-based threats. Threats are largely shaped by what they refer to as <i>cues to action</i>. The following passage is from Without a Shot Indeed.</p><p><i>The Health Belief Model, according to an article from JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, is a model used to understand health-related choices. Behaviors are predicted in much the same way as other models. The desire to avoid a threat and the effectiveness of the offered solution are the main mediums in which certain actions are predicted. The model itself approaches the issue of behavioral choices both from Skinner’s view of stimulus-response and, a cognitive perspective. This means it is believed the benefits of taking appropriate actions to avoid illness will reinforce correct behavior from the former, while the latter suggests people are actively choosing which course of action is best based on perceived expectations. In other words, the Health Belief Model has been used to examine behaviors from both a stimulus-response and cognitive theory approach.</i></p><p><i>There are four main theoretical approaches that are believed to motivate human behavior when it comes to health-related threats. Take note of the keyword in each of these approaches. Perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived barriers and, perceived benefits. The word perceived, of course, relates to how the health threat is viewed by either the individual or society. Susceptibility refers to a person’s fear of their own vulnerability. Severity of course refers to the seriousness of the threat. The perceived benefits relate to the belief in the recommended course of action and the perceived barriers refer to the psychological costs of following such recommendations.</i></p><p>An article entitled <a href="https://reason.com/2021/06/04/performative-pandemic-panic/?utm_content=buffere7ca7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR1YSD_Y4LYJ0axpyrq8aeEF9tGteQ5wrF-yDoT5K59GGzu55izc2ZHajIs">Performative Pandemic Panic</a> by J.D. Tuccille puts this into greater perspective in a way that hits home. According to Tuccille, a group called the <a href="Scientific%20Pandemic">Scientific Pandemic Influenza group on Behavior and Communications</a> convened in the U.K. to help guide people into compliance with interventions recommended by medical experts. This past May, this group <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid/">admitted that it used fear to persuade people into compliance</a> with government objectives. How does this align with the Health Belief Model? In March 2020, the SPI-B acknowledged that their propaganda was not effectively pushing people into the desired behavioral changes and that Britain’s health ministers “needed to increase the <em>perceived level of personal threat</em> from Covid-19 because a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened" (Tuccille, 2021). The whole coronavirus plandemic assumed that a well-crafted fear message would induce compliance with their objectives, and sadly, they were right.</p><p>Perhaps every aspect of this fake pandemic was designed deliberately to give a false impression of its severity. This explains why the devastating lockdowns were something seen on a global level. It is possible the contradictory information cited earlier in this article could have been deliberately released to gauge public reaction and/or contribute to the confusion. As I noted in my article, <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/media-corruption/mainstream-media-keeping-the-public-trapped-in-a-constructed-narrative/">Mainstream Media: Keeping the public trapped in a constructed narrative</a>, those who study persuasive communications and our reactions to media know that as a whole, people will not do the necessary work to retrieve pertinent information from memory, to contribute to a decision they must make now. This is called The Heuristic/Sufficiency Principle (Shrum, 2002, pp. 71-72).</p><p>Tuccille concludes his article by suggesting officialdom has taken a massive blow, and that the powers that be, would be hard-pressed to get away with such a stunt again. This is wishful thinking. With the numbers of people still wearing masks and rushing to get vaccinated, I can guarantee they are taking note and trying to figure out better ways to craft their message. Sure, if they tried the same thing next year they would run into more resistance, but when the fifth graders who are forced to wear masks in school and stay six feet away from each other grow up, that’s another story altogether. Makes you wonder what the real objective has been.</p><p> </p><p>Casiano, L. (2020, April 7) <em>Birx says government is classifying all deaths of patients with coronavirus as covid-19, regardless of cause.</em> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/birx-says-government-is-classifying-all-deaths-of-patients-with-coronavirus-as-covid-19-deaths-regardless-of-cause">Foxnews.com</a></p><p>Fauci, A.S., Lane, C. & Redfield, R. (2020) Covid-19 Navigating the Uncharted. <em><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387?query=RP">The New England Journal of Medicine</a>, </em>38(2), 1268-1269.</p><p>McCarthy, C. (2021, June 2) <em>Early 2020 emails show Fauci knew coronavirus was ‘potentially’ engineered.</em> <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fauci-coronavirus-emails-genomic/2021/06/02/id/1023610/">Newsmax.com</a></p><p>Meerloo, J, A, M. <em>Rape of the Mind. </em>(1961) Martino Fine Books. <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n19/mode/2up"><em>Rape of The Mind</em>: Joost Meerloo: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive</a></p><p>Shrum, L.J. Media consumption and perceptions of social reality: effects and underlying processes. From <em>Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research</em> (2002) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. <a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166">Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research, Second Edition (ethernet.edu.et) </a></p><p>Skousen, C. <em>The Naked Communist </em>(1958) Ensign Publishing Company <a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-046/page/n7/mode/2up">The Naked Communist : W. Cleon Skousen : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive</a></p><p>Sunstein, R., C. & Thaler, H., R. <em>Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness</em>. (2008) Caravan Books, Yale University Press. Richard_H._Thaler_Cass_R._Sunstein_Nudge_Improv. (14).pdf</p><p>Perloff, R. <em>Dynamics of Persuasion: Communications and Attitudes in the 21st century.</em> (2017) Routledge. New York</p><p>Tuccille, J.D. (2021, June 4) <em>Performative Pandemic Panic. </em><a href="https://reason.com/2021/06/04/performative-pandemic-panic/?utm_content=buffere7ca7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR1YSD_Y4LYJ0axpyrq8aeEF9tGteQ5wrF-yDoT5K59GGzu55izc2ZHajIs">reason.com</a></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-29149340671237316672021-06-04T15:01:00.001-07:002021-06-04T15:01:30.243-07:00Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwA2VVwXr0EreiROFodx5cW_GLc7kDpzFuBi0vyaEeLZ55jGj8LZ2EnkpIrLqFgYEK7uYH9OcUwMsqXrdJczlOWKhtaIWO6ubaxWoQwkmCrbrqHWFSrfJYv8nO54kcP9uCAChrzbEz_4uo/s500/book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwA2VVwXr0EreiROFodx5cW_GLc7kDpzFuBi0vyaEeLZ55jGj8LZ2EnkpIrLqFgYEK7uYH9OcUwMsqXrdJczlOWKhtaIWO6ubaxWoQwkmCrbrqHWFSrfJYv8nO54kcP9uCAChrzbEz_4uo/w426-h243/book.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWithout-Shot-Indeed-Compliance-Conditioning%2Fdp%2F1633021912%2Fref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2%3Fdchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddavid%2520risselada%26qid%3D1622799586%26sr%3D8-2%26fbclid%3DIwAR1ppgTKCuQBeanVjxPPrqxIb_Sn38Yjwql5jGikKmtBUjrTS1VEA7MjExw&h=AT3eIbEkBd5Jp-sQmGt0JQfHL2PsBRgQetY-5PyMXIsVa7zWaUHcBXIuJpetOXPlUf5R1BCsIgABdSrf1p-dbPRkozQq-0o4Ug_wlZc7Rw6hRBg4CXhALioXkMsqCk8mR-P6xC7Fu8WTCQZd7qG0&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0cg6B0BjtbdS00msvZxKVxdCARzc6kc1OUM5kJ28MPecjFbmVIRKzHGWknbOMltmwEfPvgm3WtmyqKhxVPnTF9rmL9X_rIWf2HrUZlcfSEchRabV9iWq1s79O91flKaXN2VHCUtPvk17jmCKTIk4Zt7Q">Check out my new book!</a> Deemed too controversial for Liberty Hill Press, Without a Shot Indeed shows you what they know about human behavior. With over 160 references to peer-reviewed psychology journals, this book shows you what they believe about us and how they manipulate people into compliance with tyranny. If you find yourself wondering how so many people were fooled into complying with Covid-19 mandates, this book is for you. <p></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-46199408055551483772021-05-30T11:32:00.002-07:002021-05-30T15:23:35.332-07:00Brock Chisholm's Psychiatry of Enduring Peace and Social Progress<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -4.5pt;"><b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdn5yWVqdQpPAVSaC924FgwI8HtB3sy3nK5zod6oAOGW2vXIhZZHv286o5ask012slnFxfLcOkWyHmU0cRnFVEvWRnpK2UC97QpkW5LfpEyJW319VEJrfwiFpf2HIM5aj52F-60CUmwtES/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="548" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdn5yWVqdQpPAVSaC924FgwI8HtB3sy3nK5zod6oAOGW2vXIhZZHv286o5ask012slnFxfLcOkWyHmU0cRnFVEvWRnpK2UC97QpkW5LfpEyJW319VEJrfwiFpf2HIM5aj52F-60CUmwtES/" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br /></b><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -4.5pt;"><b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -4.5pt;"><b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom
teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with
spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of
God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know <i>them,</i> because
they are spiritually discerned.</span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">(</span><a href="https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/bible.show/sVerseID/28406/eVerseID/28406" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1 Corinthians 2:11</span></a><strong><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">)</span></strong><strong><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -4.5pt;"><strong><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">America was founded on the idea that a
responsible, God-fearing population possessed the morality for a people to live
free from overbearing government. A constitution based on the principles of
natural law, and the belief that when left to their own devices, men would make
decisions that would contribute to not only their own prosperity but the
nation’s as well, has guided our nation since its inception. America’s
Christian beliefs and devotion to the ideals set forth in our founding
documents, which many believe to be based on Biblical principles, have led to the
greatest expansion of human freedom the world has ever seen. Freedom from a
Biblical perspective means understanding that there is a universal purity, a
code of morals that govern the human soul. A truth that, when pursued, leads
to true love and compassion towards others while also allowing men to live in a
state of genuineness. Striving to be better people as we try to tame our
natural inclinations and fill our hearts, and enlighten our souls, with the
word of God. Few could argue, as they wrestle with the question of how it
happened, that America’s morality has slipped, and the concept of truth has
been distorted and perverted to where its very existence has become nothing
short of a scientific debate. Does a universal morality exist? How is true
freedom defined? Being free to pursue truth or being free from so-called, self-described
delusions of God and a higher purpose, of which some argue have served as
mechanisms of control from generations past? </span></strong><strong><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">“Psychology has grown
into the privileged but precarious position of defining with primary, if not
exclusive authority, what the nature of man is.”</span></strong><strong><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> (Bruner, Foreword in The new man in Soviet
Psychology, 1952, p. xx)</span></strong><strong><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/christian-teacher-suspended-after-opposing-transgender-policies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Blaze Media</span></a><strong><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> recently ran a story highlighting a high school gym
teacher being placed on administrative leave for refusing to acknowledge the
school’s transgender policies. The teacher, Byron Cross, stated that he would
not participate in lies that would defile the image of God in the minds of
young, impressionable children. He was alluding to the undeniable truth that
biologically, a boy cannot decide to be a girl and vice versa. This is a
sickness that has infected the very soul of our nation. A direct result of
disregarding the truth of God and allowing man to define our existence. America
has been viewed as a Christian nation since our founding. How did something
like transgenderism, the lie that children can choose their own gender
identity, become so pervasive in our society? J.S. Bruner, in his foreword to </span></strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Psychology-Russian-Research-Studies/dp/0674282523"><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The New Man in Soviet Psychology</span></i></a><strong><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> (1952, p. xx), writes that he who molds
and defines the image of man does so with enormous consequences to the future of
humanity, and this defining view can be an instrument of social control.
American’s have allowed, through a slow and steady push of progressive
ideology, social science to define our value. Psychology has replaced religion
in almost all spheres of our lives, </span></strong><a href="https://learntheology.com/is-psychology-needed-in-the-church.html"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">even in the very churches we attend</span></a><strong><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">. </span></strong><strong><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in 8pt 0.5in;"><b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Fully
persuaded that psychological training is necessary to counsel effectively, most
pastors today refer their parishioners to psychologists and psychiatrists for
treatment of serious emotional and behavioral disorders. Christian publishing
houses pour out an endless stream of books written by psychologists to help
believers solve their problems of living. These experts appear on Christian
radio and television and produce film series to communicate their belief that
pastors and churches can help parishioners with minor problems, but serious
disorders must be entrusted to professional counselors</span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">.” (<strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bulkley,
Learningtheology.com) <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Pastors referring their parishioners to trained psychotherapists is
antithetical to religion because, as I intend to show in this paper, the
purpose of psychotherapy and psychology itself is to redefine man and his
systems of morality. After World War Two, Canadian psychiatrist Brock Chisholm
presented a paper to the World Health Organization entitled </span></strong><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/379079797/Psychiatry-of-Enduring-Peace-and-Social-Progress-Chisholm-and-Sullivan-1946-Offprint-of-the-Reestablishment-of-Peacetime-Society"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Psychiatry of Enduring Peace and Social Progress: The
Reestablishment of Peacetime Society.</span></i></a><strong><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></strong><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The purpose of this paper was
to present psychiatry and psychology as a way of curbing man’s behavior in a
time when the destruction of the world, made possible by the splitting of the
atom, has become a feasible reality. Molding man to become a “global citizen” (Jui
Wu, 2015) by curbing his anxieties caused by the inequality of capitalism, and
the fears created by traditional belief systems was the goal. This is the point
where psychology, opposed to religion, would shape and mold man’s nature and
man would define his own existence. Chisholm, as many in the field of
psychology do, viewed religious morality as the problem. It would be the
responsibility, as Abe Fortas wrote in the foreword, of the church, school,
home, and government to examine, understand and treat the ills which plague
society and the individual, and it is the role of the psychiatrist to eradicate
those causes. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Chisholm wrote the primary cause of man’s aggression, the reason we
fight wars is what he refers to as “the lowest common denominator in all
civilizations” (1946, p. 7), morality. The false belief that there is a
universal right and wrong is the primary cause of all “fear, guilt and feelings
of inferiority that cause people the need to control other’s behaviors and
beliefs” (1946, p. 7). It is the conviction of truth as a universal concept
that prevents maturity and rational thinking, and bowing down to the
doctrine of sin and the existence of evil, which has prevented true progress (1946,
p. 7). Religious belief is a dogma, writes Chisholm (1946, p. 8) which prevents
men from reasoning and </span></strong><strong><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">enjoying their inclination to follow their
natural urges. </span></i></strong><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Religion is viewed as
something that restricts men’s ability to think freely while imposing
limitations on where that thinking may lead. This is true, Christian morality
would not encourage the type of free-thinking that leads to encouraging
children to defy their given gender. Christian morality encourages the pursuit
of truth. It is the difference in the way psychiatry and religion define truth
that has led America astray. From the perspective of Chisholm and others in
psychiatry, truth is defined in terms of Darwinist evolution, and because of
that, it is the job of psychiatry to guide thinking and behavior away from the
neurosis of religion and towards a more natural way of thinking. Darwin first
posited the idea that man is nothing more than an evolved ape whose morality
should be man-centered only up to a certain point </span></strong><a href="http://www.jamesrachels.org/CFA5.pdf"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">(Rachels,
1990, p. 173).</span></a><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> Because we evolved from
animals, and not created by a divine being, it is logical, according to a
concept known as moral individualism (Rachels, 1990, p. 173) to accept the
notion that man has no greater value than any other animal. Moral individualism
suggests that when judging whose life has more value, an animal, or a human,
the characteristics of each should be the deciding factor. It was the
introduction of Darwinism to the world which gave science the needed philosophy
to redefine what it means to be human. If man is an evolved ape, and not the
creation of an all-powerful god, the concept of right and wrong and good and
evil is easily dispelled and cast aside. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The objective of all psychotherapy writes Chisholm (1946, p. 9), is the
“re-interpretation and eventually, eradication of the concept of right and
wrong which has been the basis of child training.” There is not a public school
in America which does not have in its employ, counselors, and psychologists who
monitor behavior and prescribe drugs to contain it. Chisholm suggested
elementary education should be working along with those in psychiatry to do
away with the prejudices of right and wrong and good and evil (1946, p. 9). It
is the job of the psychiatrist to train psychotherapists and teachers into the
ways of training children which will free them of such burdens (1946, p. 9).
Psychology and sociology, and what Chisholm refers to as “the sciences of
living” (1946, p. 9) should be dominant in elementary schooling while more
advanced subjects should be saved for university studies. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">With the other human sciences, psychiatry must
now decide what is to be the immediate future of the human race. No one else
can. This is the primary responsibility of psychiatry.</span></strong><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> (Chisholm, 1956, p. 11)<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">American’s continue to watch in astonishment as that which makes no
sense challenges our basic sense of morality. We sit in frustration and
helplessness as we watch our schools indoctrinate our children into
transgenderism while also instilling in them a belief that our values are
outdated, misguided, and not suitable for the world developing around them. We
are blissfully unaware that even our most cherished institutions have allowed
the poisoned view of psychology to replace religion. Unbeknownst to most, the system that is seemingly there to help exists solely to eradicate our beliefs
of what is correct behavior, and replace them with evolutionary thinking to
strip us of the morals which Chisholm holds, are the “lowest common denominator
of all civilizations” (1946, p. 7) Values which the psychiatrist believes lead
to the fears, prejudices, and feelings of inferiority responsible for man’s
aggressive behavior and need to control others. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">It is due time that those in the psychiatric profession take a hard
look at their own behavior. Feeling the need to strip man of his religious belief
is driven by only one thing. The fear of admitting that God exists in the first
place. It could be theoretically argued that many of America’s problems didn’t
come about until the <a href="https://historycentral.com/sixty/60/school.html">Supreme
Court ruled prayer in public school to be unconstitutional in 1962</a>. The
first amendment was radically interpreted to mean freedom from religion,
opposed to freedom of religion. The concepts of right and wrong and universal
truth have been gone for decades, and we are now weeping the whirlwind with
generations of kids growing up to believe they can choose their own gender. As
if that will lead to greater peace and prosperity. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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Soviet Psychology</i>, p. xx. London. Oxford University Press. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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church? Learntheology.com</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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PEACE AND SOCIAL PROGRESS (THE REËSTABLISHMENT OF PEACETIME SOCIETY)-The
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School Prayer Unconstitutional (historycentral.com)</a><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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1948–c.1965. </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">History of Psychiatry</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">26</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">(2), 166–181.</span> <span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><strong><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-5066151654248722992021-05-23T16:06:00.002-07:002021-05-23T16:06:38.916-07:00Same old rhetoric: Leftist’s admit they must discredit opponents to make message more effective<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">The assumption that people cannot investigate for themselves, or make decisions that reflect their best interests, is prevalent among social scientists. Cass Sunstein’s book Nudge, for example, is based on the concept that people’s choices can be manipulated because they do not recognize what to do with conflicting information. Studies into mainstream media have suggested that individuals do not do the work necessary to retrieve pertinent memories when decision making</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Shrum, 2002, p. 71)</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">, and they only rely on the most recently received stimuli when forming opinions or judgments. These are beliefs formed by the way social scientists regard humans in general. A bias driven by the idea that we are nothing more than stimulus-response organisms, and evolutionary instincts, opposed to free will, force our actions. Behavioral Psychologist B.F. Skinner</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><a href="https://selfdefinition.org/psychology/BF-Skinner-Beyond-Freedom-%26-Dignity-1971.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(1971, p. 101)</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">, stated this viewpoint should guide any study of human behavior. The idea of free will allows for too much variance and prohibits any standardization of behavioral analysis. This view dominates science and is, at its core, is fundamentally flawed. People do think and investigate on their own, while also coming to sensible conclusions. Citizen inquiry into controversial Covid-19 data has shaken the scientific establishment to the point where they are freely admitting they must find new ways to present their message. Online studies into groups that question the mainstream narrative are showing they not only recognize how to do research but can use it to challenge the powers that be.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">A recent paper entitled <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3411764.3445211" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Viral Visualizations: How coronavirus skeptics use orthodox data practices to promote unorthodox science online</a> highlights how effectively conservative groups questioning the Covid-19 narrative, follow and interpret the so-called science. Scholars from the prestigious MIT and Wellesley college discuss the methods in which “anti-maskers” could interpret the same data justifying the extreme measures combating the pandemic and productively make counter-arguments. While they take note detailing the competent methodologies in which these groups compiled and interpreted data, they also seem to harbor a resentment that anyone would challenge the scientific consensus. They take the view that science is settled, and we should just follow expert opinions.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">For example, the writers acknowledge that anti-mask groups are “very prolific in their creation of counter-visualizations, but they leverage data and their visual representations to advocate for and enact policy changes on the city, county, and state levels” (Lee, Yang, Inchoco, Jones & Satayanarayan, 2021, p. 2). This quote suggests there is some concern that anti-mask groups are finding unsettling truths in the data which suggests lockdown policies, social distancing and mask-wearing are unnecessary. Anti-mask groups also tend to be “more sophisticated in their understanding of how scientific knowledge is socially constructed than their ideological adversaries, who espouse naive realism about the “objective” truth of public health data” (Lee et al. 2021, p. 2).</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The writers view scientific inquiry as a means to an end, an unquestionable consensus that defines what we should believe. Anti-mask groups reject this and view the scientific method as “radically egalitarian and individualist” (Lee et al. 2021, p. 15). The writers criticize Covid-19 skeptics for their view that scientific rigor should “prize rationality and autonomy” (Lee et al. 2021, p. 15). In other words, people who can interpret their data and use it to challenge the status quo threaten them. The article points to issues like Covid-19 being labeled as the primary cause of death in many patients when in fact, it was revealed that comorbidities caused most fatalities. In September 2020, the <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-94percent-of-covid-19-deaths-had-underlying-medical-conditions/ar-BB18wrA7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">CDC admitted that 94% of coronavirus deaths</a> were the result of other underlying medical conditions. The writers refer to this as a sleight of hand used to manipulate anti-masker data interpretations. Another point of discontent made by anti-mask groups is the inaccuracy of the data. <a href="https://sentinelksmo.org/cdc-maximum-28-ct-for-post-vaccine-covid-pcr-tests/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The PCR tests</a>, for example, were running a high rate of false positives because they were running a cycle of 36. Shortly after President Biden was inaugurated, they dropped the cycle count to 28 to reflect a more accurate rate. An anti-mask investigative team in Texas discovered a backlog of unaudited cases which was contributing to the state’s high positive rate (Lee et al. 2021, p. 13). A similar thing happened in Oklahoma. Late last summer <a href="https://www.krmg.com/news/local/how-when-why-oklahoma-will-begin-adding-probable-covid-19-cases-its-daily-reporting/XO55HDTMHBGOXHAFACDUKNJNQA/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">they started adding probable cases dating as far back as March 2020</a>. They admitted this would inflate the case numbers. Shortly after this news was reported, case number skyrocketed. The writers of this paper are not arguing these points are made up or based on misinformation. It shocks them to their core people can come to these conclusions and are rejecting the mainstream narrative.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">How did they discover that anti-mask groups are so effective in compiling and interpreting their data? They infiltrated social media groups and ran studies so they could better learn to frame the message. They refer to this as Digital Ethnography (Lee et al. 2021, p. 4) and readily admit to lurking in online communities to document their attitudes and online activities.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“Using “lurking,” a mode of participating by observing specific to digital platforms, we propose “deep lurking” as a way of systematically documenting the cultural practices of online communities. Our methods here rely on robust methodological literature in digital ethnography, and we employ a case study approach to analyze these Facebook groups. To that end, we followed five Facebook groups (each with a wide range of followers, 10K-300K) over the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic, and we collected posts throughout the platform that included terms for “coronavirus” and “visualization” with Facebook’s Crowd Tangle tool. In our deep lurking, we archived web pages and took field notes on the following: posts (regardless of whether or not they included “coronavirus” and “data”), subsequent comments, Facebook Live streams, and photos of in-person events. We collected and analyzed posts from these groups from their earliest date to September 2020.” (Lee et al. 2021, p. 4)</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Social scientists routinely infiltrate online groups to assess attitudes, opinions, and beliefs to gauge how effectively their message gains the desired compliance. For instance, the science journal JMIR Public Health and Surveillance conducted a study called <a href="https://publichealth.jmir.org/2020/3/e20493/PDF" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Use of Health Belief Model–Based Deep Learning Classifiers for COVID-19 Social Media Content to Examine Public Perceptions of Physical Distancing: Model Development and Case Study.</em></a> The aim of this study was to infiltrate social media communities and use the <a href="https://defenseofournation.com/global-elite/the-face-mask-study-of-2014-and-the-health-belief-model-understanding-how-science-views-us/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Health Belief Model</a> as a framework from which they could evaluate attitudes towards social distancing interventions. The Health Belief Model is a model of behavioral change designed to examine people’s reactions to perceived health threats. By carefully analyzing social media interactions in response to information put out by health authorities, those framing the messages meant to influence behavior could change the message, as necessary. This study may not have contributed to the article being discussed; however, it does provide an example of how social media groups were infiltrated to acquire data.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">There is a long-held belief that people cannot think for themselves and the scientific community is becoming frustrated that this is proving to be untrue. The question then becomes, how do you reframe the message so that anti-mask groups appear less credible? You do what leftists always do, accuse them of racism. Lee et al. (2021, p. 15) admit that convincing people to adopt the desired restrictive measures pertaining to Covid-19 will take more than accurate data. It will require “a sustained engagement with the social world of visualizations and the people who make or interpret them.” In other words, they need to make counter-arguments to steer people away from the anti-mask groups and the effective ways they are interpreting the data. They do this by equating those questioning the Covid narrative to anti-government groups and Christian fundamentalists who are “threatened by evolutionary biology” (Lee et al. 2021, p. 14). They even make the subtle suggestion that it is the questioning of mainstream science, and government institutions, which leads persuadable people to commit acts like the so-called insurrection at the capital this past January (Lee et al. 2021, p. 15). Finally, the writers readily admit that it would be necessary to appeal to the culture of wokeness to draw people away from anti-masker data interpretations.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Like data feminists, anti-mask groups similarly identify problems of political power within datasets that are released (or otherwise withheld) by the US government. Indeed, they contend that the way COVID data is currently being collected is non-neutral, and they seek liberation from what they see as an increasingly authoritarian state that weaponizes science to exacerbate persistent and asymmetric power relations. This paper shows that <u style="box-sizing: inherit;">more critical approaches</u> to visualization are necessary and that the frameworks used by these researchers (e.g., critical race theory, gender analysis, and social studies of science) are crucial to disentangling how anti-mask groups mobilize visualizations politically to achieve powerful and often horrifying ends. (Lee et al. 2021, p. 3)</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">American’s are waking up, and the establishment that believes people are nothing more than programmable automatons doesn’t know what to do about it. Aside from engaging in the same old rhetoric, they count on to discredit their opponents, they sit helplessly as people prove themselves to be capable of challenging the status quo, using their own systems against them. This is the type of citizen engagement that is necessary to retain liberty and hold government accountable. Unfortunately, leftist tactics of discrediting the opposition are effective at silencing many. While there are people effectively challenging the narrative, the masses remain naively compliant and seem unwilling to take a stand in their own interest. Anti-mask groups interpreting the data must at some point, realize what the left has; it will take more than skilled data interpretation to shine the light on the truth. It will take “a sustained engagement with the social world of visualizations and the people who make or interpret them” (Lee et al. 2021, p. 15). We must find ways to overcome the labels thrown on us by the left and engage with those sitting on the sidelines while also, bringing social credibility to our movement.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Bondy, D. 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(14).pdf</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6421295206256219401.post-33954484494469283612021-04-26T16:07:00.002-07:002021-04-26T16:07:39.439-07:00Understanding Reflexive Reaction to Speech and the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCZqIP7dFLPKlHodfvrA5jEQH_dDLU0Blny2f_OzVgIksdU-M6Phi49YXChNWD3wminRG3006J6VH9-1-PFpr9h0okxBM2uKvKEtgxXjSTRUFkCGIyYwo7FpUb0nMCBzblz2xf80-FuoHR/s349/april+25+picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="349" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCZqIP7dFLPKlHodfvrA5jEQH_dDLU0Blny2f_OzVgIksdU-M6Phi49YXChNWD3wminRG3006J6VH9-1-PFpr9h0okxBM2uKvKEtgxXjSTRUFkCGIyYwo7FpUb0nMCBzblz2xf80-FuoHR/w429-h215/april+25+picture.jpg" width="429" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px;">“He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind.” (Meerloo, 1961, p. 28)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">To what extent does language shape and guide human behavior? Do the words we use and hear every day, produce automatic, reflexive attitudes which govern the way we interact with our environment and each other? There is an awakening to the idea of media being used as a tool of mass persuasion, pushing people into accepting a totalitarian agenda. There is little doubt, media is organized in a way that shapes beliefs and opinions towards social issues. Conservative and liberal news programs alike, describe society’s problems and potential solutions from the pre-defined political outlooks of Republican or Democrat. The beliefs of individuals within these respective parties reflect the narrative their chosen side is pushing. Controversial, attention-grabbing stories, are often framed from the left-wing view, forcing the right into a defensive posture. People on both sides instinctively stick to the script, which is undoubtedly designed to “condition and mold man’s mind so that its comprehension is confined to a narrow, totalitarian concept of the world” <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n27/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Meerloo, 1961, pg. 22).</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">In Rape of the Mind (p. 28) Meerloo discusses Pavlovian conditioning and how it pertains to speech reflexes. He specifically states that coercion through force, which is the traditional means of gaining compliance in totalitarian states, can be replaced with a “new organization of the means of communication.” A predictable pattern of thinking can be created, according to Meerloo (p. 28), through the distribution of ready-made opinions which guide public perceptions. Pavlov found that reactions to speech are as much of a conditioning tool as any external stimulus. This was something he referred to as indirect conditioning or, stimuli of the second-order (Meerloo, 1961, p. 28). Joseph Stalin published a piece in 1950 titled <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1263328?seq=1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Concerning Marxism in Linguistics</a>,</em> which was published in the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">International Journal of American Linguistics</em> in 1952, where he discusses human language acting as “adaptive equipment” in response to our environment (Meerloo, 1961, p. 28). Certain tones and sounds, over centuries of evolution, have produced reflexive responses which can be used to predict human reaction to certain, social stimuli (Meerloo, 1961, p. 28). Stalin himself states that language, opposed to culture-defining what society does or thinks, describes a “how” of thought patterns (Stalin, 1950.) He goes onto suggest that over time, and even through conquest, languages can retain their basic grammatical structure and words while adapting to new laws of development. What he is essentially saying is, and he is looking at this from an evolutionary perspective, speech and our reactions to certain sounds we make, can and have produced reflexive reactions in our behavioral patterns.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Stalin was not the only one who saw the potential of the human language as a mechanism of control. Russian psychologist, Sergej Dobrogaev, has done extensive work in this area, picking up where Pavlov left off <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11212-008-9063-x" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(Chown, 2008).</a> Dobrogaev was studying Pavlov’s work in 1918 and realized that human speech itself presents an indication of how the human brain responds to stimulation and, that it was a manifestation of preconditioned responses (Chown, 2008). In other words, human beings have theoretically, been responding to the same words, tones, and sounds the same way for centuries. From their perspective, our reaction to language has evolved into automatic reflexive responses which they have taken to calling, reflexive theory. Automatic responses to language are created through what Dobrogaev refers to as acoustic characteristics. Language, as a product of the social environment, creates a neurological pathway in the brain in the cranial zones where the processing of information takes place (Chown, 2008).</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“The more frequently a particular acoustic combination is reproduced within a society, the quicker the most essential, socially significant, information on this acoustic sign is processed by a language learner, enabling him or her to recognize the constant elements of the sign in the individual manner of pronunciation of a speaker. Thus, the process of recognition of language elements represented in human speech can be defined as a conditioned reflex, or, as Dobrogaev puts it, a socio-physiological reflex. The existence of a phoneme is therefore largely pre-conditioned by the ability and physiological “readiness” of the members of a society to recognize it as one of the typical elements of their language.” (Chown, 2008, p. 314)</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">How does any of this apply to today’s mass media approach to presenting information? According to the book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/58135/1/15.Jennings%20Bryant.pdf#page=166" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research</a> </em>(p. 155), attitude change through media does not occur because of the information the media presents, but how our reactions to such information is later taken advantage of (Petty, Priester & Brinol, 2002, p. 157). This would imply that there is a certain understanding of our reaction to language, and messaging is deliberately planned to invoke that reaction. It was found that people often distort the information coming in (Petty, Priester & Brinol, 2002, p. 157), and effective attempts at persuading attitudes revolved around overcoming the barriers of people’s initial reactions. When people receive new information, it is often processed in a way that aligns with existing biases, therefore, messaging meant to influence attitude change must be tailored to overcome this reaction. Simply increasing the frequency of the information is not enough. There is also a two-step approach to attitude change which holds that the initial media message is only partially responsible for changing attitudes and opinions, and it is the community leader’s continued pushing of the message that is most effective (Petty, Priester & Brinol, 2002, p. 158).</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Like all other studies of human behavior, the study of our reactions to media is broken down into various models. The model most in use today, developed in response to the failures of other models to adequately explain why people do or do not change their opinions, is The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion (Petty, Priester & Brinol, 2002, p. 165). This process places people into two categories. Those who give a thoughtful analysis based on past experiences, and the merits of the information being presented into consideration before changing their position, and those who do not. This is known as taking the central or peripheral route of persuasion (Petty, Priester & Brinol, 2002, pp. 165-168). The peripheral route suggests that attitude change can occur because people’s ability to process the information is low, and all it takes are simple “cues to action” in the messaging to produce the desired effect (Petty, Priester & Brinol, 2002, p. 168). The central route is just the opposite and requires tweaking of the message. It is necessary, according to Petty, Priester & Brinol (2002, p. 170) to separate the public into those who may have a genuine interest in the message, and those who do not, when it comes to crafting the information meant to influence behavior. The most important element is how the information presented is perceived to have a direct impact on the individual (Petty, Priester & Brinol, 2002, p. 170). Another important element when it comes to effective messaging is the trustworthiness of the source.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Interestingly, Petty, Priester & Brinol (2002, p. 156) acknowledge The War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938 as being an instrumental event in understanding how mass communications affect people’s behaviors. The book <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Invasion from Mars: A Study of the Psychology of Panic</em> <a href="https://www.chesler.us/resources/links/Cantril.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">(see this PDF)</a> highlights how the trust of those in the broadcast who portrayed media figures played a key role in influencing people’s reactions. It was also found that people who had the wherewithal to check the actual sources of the broadcast were least likely to have been influenced by the broadcast. Both points highlight the relevance of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“Such rare occurrences provide opportunities for social scientists to study mass behavior. They must be exploited when they come. Although the social scientist, unfortunately, cannot usually predict such situations and have his tools of investigation ready to analyze the phenomenon while it is still on the wing, he can begin his work before the effects of the crisis are over and memories are blurred. The situation created by the broadcast was one which shows us how the common man reacts in a time of stress and strain. It gives us insights into his intelligence, his anxieties, and his needs, which we could never get by tests or strictly experimental studies. The panic situation we have investigated had all the flavor of everyday life and, at the same time, provided a semi-experimental condition for research. In spite of the unique conditions giving rise to this particular panic, the writer has attempted to indicate throughout the study the pattern of the circumstances which, from a psychological point of view, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">might make this the prototype of any panic.”</u></em></span> (Cantril, War of the Worlds, 1952)</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">There is a high likelihood, based on the information presented in this article, that media messages are based not only on what they know about human behavior but how that behavior is shaped by our response to language. Stalin and Dobrogaev both believed that the sounds and tones associated with language have created evolutionary, reflexive reactions in our behavioral patterns. Is this something that is well known among those that craft information in a way to gain our compliance with certain agendas, such as mandatory masking, vaccines, or even gun control? It is certainly possible. Social scientists have found however that gaining that compliance is not always as easy as crafting an effective message. Understanding our reactions to such messages, and how to craft them in a way that aligns with our pre-existing beliefs and attitudes is essential. This revelation gave birth to the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion. This is the model most likely used in gaining compliance with coronavirus mandates as both sides of the media, left and right, are pushing the narrative while ignoring the obvious contradictions and controversies. If certain tones and words are believed to influence certain behaviors, we must understand this knowledge is certainly being employed against us to manipulate our perceptions and guide our thoughts and beliefs.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Cantril, H. (1952) <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Invasion from Mars: A study on the Psychology of Panic</em>. Princeton University Press.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Chown, K. (2008) Reflex theory in a linguistic context: Sergej M. Dobrogaev on the social nature of speech production. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Stud East Eur Thought</em> <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">60, </span>307–319.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Meerloo, J, A, M. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Rape of the Mind. </em>(1961) Martino Fine Books. <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheRapeOfTheMind1961/page/n19/mode/2up" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Rape of The Mind</em>: Joost Meerloo: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive</a></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Petty, E, P., Driester, R, J. & Brinol, P. Mass Media Attitude Change: Implications of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion. From Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research (2002) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Taylor, D. (1952) Concerning Marxism in Linguistics. International Journal of American Linguistics, 18(4), pp. 273-275</p>David Risseladahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17465872194254473160noreply@blogger.com1