Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Disseminating Toxic Ideas
Reading an article about the pesticide industry using African-American organizations like CORE to shill for them in fighting environmental sanity reminded me of a post at Black Agenda Report exposing NAACP as a "civil rights whorehouse". Whether it's the pesticide manufacturers or the communications industry, though, the means of disseminating toxic ideas remains mass media, and as Christopher Simpson wrote in his book The Science of Coercion, "Psychological warfare is the application of mass communication to modern social conflict". The fact that the white establishment manipulates black poverty pimps is not surprising; James Forman exposed that in his memoir The Making of Black Revolutionaries.
