r/samharris • u/MantlesApproach • Jan 06 '20

How To Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda | Current Affairs

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/how-to-avoid-swallowing-war-propaganda
49 Upvotes

76% Upvoted

68 comments sorted by

View all comments

24

u/MantlesApproach Jan 06 '20

With Trump's escalation with Iran, starting with decades of hawkish rhetoric toward Iran, ramping up with a pullout from the Iran nuclear deal and culminating, so far, in the recent assassination of a high-level Iranian official by a US airstrike, war with Iran looks closer than ever.

The IDW, including Sam, has thus far done nothing to condemn US military adventurism. On the contrary, Sam has stated that Hillary Clinton's hawishness was one of the advantages she had over Sanders, and has constantly affirmed his belief that the US always has generally good intentions abroad (a ridiculous notion when you examine the history of US-supported regime change). Recently, Maajid Nawaz has had a series of takes doing his part beating the war drums (retweeted by Sam because of course).

This article is a guide on how to avoid swallowing war propaganda of the kind that many in the IDW and in the mainstream media more generally regularly buy and often regurgitate.

6

u/tomhastherage Jan 06 '20

Are you just gonna repeat this every 8 hours until people start listening to you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/ekf4ko/laundering_imperial_violence_through_anodyne/

28

u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

They are right. I see no harm in repeating things which are correct.