Created Tuesday 30 September 2025
- How copaganda works, some history
- Vivek Chibber (Confronting Capitalism podcast) notes that he dont believe in Gramsci hegemony so much
- are people conned into thining that NL is good, or where we left we no other choice?
- and maybe I kinda agree w/ this sentement
- fot instance we can see in US cinema that it acts as a way of porting elite values to the working classes
- giving them a guide into how to integrate into US society
- but as teh next part shows, film is the elite way of justifying and explaining their racial strategy in the US.
- Not brainwashing the people, merely reflecting the reality of the situation.
- Because the racial divide was a strategy born out witnessing increasingly class conscousness between workers of diff races.
- The legal strategy to break it was, in the US south, the Jim Crow laws.
- Copaganda todays still transmits these same elite racist values
- 14mn Ball (context is PTA new movie: One battle after another) notes that most cinema id a reflection of teh white author fantasy, trauma and concern over the threat from the black community
- and fetisication of hyper-sexual black women, and the issue of mulato/a offspring that are left behind for white men to deal with
- 25 mn
- BAll paraphrasing Rosa Salas notes that the reason for this perspective nowadays is not to brainwash to unbelievers, but to make a connection with the actual target audience, white affluent audinces (USA).
- the goal is to reinforce whites sense of colonial superioruty of whiteness
- RTM: I guess I could port this over to UK by noting the use if Irish criminals to re-create the same post-colonial re-inforcement of British superiority through the Irish.
- How would that work for the representation of otjer UK based minorities