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Ready made propaganda kits to chivvy along hesitant kids

#1

Forgive the flippant subject line but if you click through the slide deck at the bottom of this article you’ll see a far more egregious example of hitting the wrong tone.

UKColumn news today highlighted this.

The “facts” being offered as a FREE resource to schools, to challenge vaccine apathy, include a blatant equivalence being drawn between opposition to jabs and beliefs that the world is flat. The whole thing is creepily manipulative.

If you’d rather go straight to the slides (PDF via the Wayback Machine) https://bit.ly/3el47nS

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#2

What blatant propaganda and brainwashing. All explained as if scientists are like gods who know precisely how the body works. Note also how “scientists” are all good and think the same

“scientists still think you should have the vaccine”
“Scientists working around the clock”

while it’s only individuals (non-scientists) who question things:

“Some people think there’s no need [for vaccines]”,
“, that people who believe in conspiracy theories tend to be more anxious, paranoid, or suspicious compared to people who don’t believe in conspiracy theories”.

The images remind me of those used to show how safe nuclear power is – all sanitised pictures, with people smiling. Creepy indeed!

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#3

I wonder if these patronizing, almost honeyed presentations will make some suspicious. Like Willem I find this creepy.

Part of the education seems to be instilling disrespect, even shaming:

Covid: What should schools do about anti-vaxxer families?

Face masks: Schools seek legal advice over anti-mask parent threats

From the magazine: How will school leaders handle anti-vaxxers?

Just as bad is that it’s suppressing reasoned thought and the whole process of learning by exploration. The worst thing is that these teachers are so on board, and they are teaching the kids like fourteenth century priests.

School seems less like a good way to get education these days.

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#4

I hope so @Evvy_dense, the “intractable” 20% or so who know School is a bullshit sorting pen won’t engage, but that will confirm to Miss and Sir how right they are to concentrate their efforts on the Good Kids.

This phrase “school leaders” is yet another example of how old fuddy duddy titles like Director or Headteacher, Head of X, etc, are deemphasized. This is especially true in Higher Ed where magical charismatic leadership qualities are worth big big bucks, apparently.

In fact the wodges of cash are to suppress all vestiges of conscience, basic decency, when executing the top down agenda handed to the “leaders” in the form of government guidance. Schools are increasingly managed as clusters by multi-academy outfits like Oasis, United Learning, Learning Schools, and other weird cults. Homogenised kiddie farmers, obsessed with proceduralism and jooking the stats (to borrow from The Wire).

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#5

I noted yesterday that the accompanying slides for the Hawking Foundation brainwashing presentation feature the same slide twice - once at the beginning and again at the end of the slide show - - it’s a prompt for pupils to raise their hands to indicate ‘yes’ if they think the ‘vaccine’ is safe - you’ll see that the image on the slide shows raised hands - - hence, pupils will in all likelihood see the raised hands as a visual clue for the ‘correct’ answer…small thing I know, but that’s how the venal swine operate - insidious as they are…

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#6

The whose who of th’e-pide-(piper)-mic users funding (directing) group Vaccine confidence .org

lead by Professor Plumb in the Chat-ham house study, the epi-centre of misinformation, aka professor hidey liarsum-more whose special subject is “rumour management” or as Noam & Ed put it Manufacturing Consent

We are swimming in a veritable cess-pit of propagandised bullsh*t supported by zoom-united, the “union” of child managers - NEU - which looks like :

and sounds like a german ban(ne)d, oh wait
krautrock punk:
Neu! - Wikipedia!

:wink:
cheers

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#7

Brilliant links, thanks C J.

The “team” at Vaccine Confidence look as though they’ve been thoroughly initiated to their zealous little cult. I’m sure the partners and funders will consider their money well spent.

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#8

More brazen and juvenile propaganda from CeeBeebies the BBC.

I looked back for a story to tack this on to. Another candidate was “Free Doughnuts Given for Vaccine and Mask Compliance” - where better to put honeypots than over doughnuts?

Hows about this for patronizing

The volunteers using ‘honeypot’ groups to fight anti-vax propaganda

If I paid a BBC license I’d ask for a half-price junior version. Propaganda talking about fighting propaganda (it’s a junk story too)…there isn’t even any misleading substance.

Mummy says too much honey will make you sick - so I realize its too much to ask anyone to read this utter bilge.
But it’s bilge with a purpose. The purpose - to promote the idea that social media isn’t censoring enough.

Meet Brian - a victim of anti-vaccine propaganda, whose life was SAVED by the…honeypot.
Not only that but he soon after got the vaccine! And for the last few months he’s been living happily ever after!

In fact the honey pot has been banned from Facebook due to posting ‘misinformation’. Which is interesting - so you can’t have both sides of a debate, because one will be wrong.

OK I’ll finish with some of the bilge.

"“I wasn’t in a good place,” he says, sitting on his leather sofa at home. He explains how he spent hours watching YouTube videos made by anti-vaccine activists.

But he also joined Dave and Richard’s Facebook group, thinking it was an anti-vaccine community. And that’s when things started to change.

“They sort of swung me round,” Brian says, “by sending me actual factual information.”

Richard talked with him about the personal difficulties that had left him vulnerable to the easy explanations of online pseudoscience. And he also explained how the algorithms of social media sites work to reel people in - with emotion, and by serving up content similar to that which the user has seen before.

Brian even credits Dave and Richard with saving his life. If he hadn’t encountered their group, Brian says, “I might not be here. I went to some dark places.”

But now, he says, things are looking up.

“I’m in a better place,” he says. “I’m in a proper home environment now, I’ve got rugrats running around my feet again.” His face lights up as he speaks of his grandchildren.

He’s also had a vaccine against Covid-19, having been completely opposed to it just a few months before."

C-r-i-n-g-e…I think my junior license discount now has to be 100%…

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#9

Junior licence? Sod that! The damned-lying beeb gets nothing from me, ever. I greatly appreciate their music output, and some of their arts stuff. I’d even be prepared to support that financially. But their ‘news’ output trashes all credibility - and all worthiness of support. Not just untrustworthy: actively malign in its effect. A gics’ tool.

And it does seep through into its other output too. As Orwell described it in his time there, there’s a house-consensus atmosphere that pervades everything, and contaminates ALL output. Defy that at your career-death risk! The narrative-keeper mandarins will crush and eject you. (Had a taste of that in action myself when hired for a TV shoot by the beeb.) Everyone in the anthill understands that perfectly well. Absolutely no need for written memos…

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#10

Laughable rubbish.

While it’s demonstrably true that social media, and search engines, produce bubbles of confirmation bias, for the Baa Baa Cee to sneer about this is risible.

Like the 5000th episode of Casualty for example (I assume it’s still on)? How many of those ‘talent’ shows are there these days? Faked nature documentaries, Panorama hit pieces, the ‘stupid Karen’ lockdown sceptic character off EastEnders, the same few hundred posh twats in every single drama, the sons, daughters and nieces etc of the Dimblebys, and on and on and on.

#11

I wasn’t a posh twat. Could be why I didn’t get very high up the tree in sho-biz. But then, neither did 98% of the Equity members, on average. Most of us were always subsidising British sho-biz’s pool of outstanding talent available at cut rates, by our ‘resting’ jobs. It was just the lousy ‘free’ West’s way of doing it. So many brilliantly-talented people whom I saw who never got far in the trade. The situation for actors in Soviet Russia was miles better then. Assigned to a company when you came out of drama school, and then nurtured in that reliably-continuing, reliably-paid work experience to do the traditional apprenticeship that is the only way that actors really learn their craft.

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