The left and the right have different propaganda techniques. The right tends to lean more on centralized propaganda, the left, more on a broad-spectrum, decentralized form of propaganda.
This provides lots of cover in comparison and lets the left play the "holier than thou" style of card when similar outcomes happen.
For example, much of the propaganda on the right will come from news service style organizations or political officials themselves, which will then be echoed by a number of followers. On the other hand, the left relies on celebrities, entertainment shows, and then reinforce that with echo-chambers. This lets their politicians offer lighter touches when it comes to direct confrontational comments, which in the end lets the left say "Look, this is different, it wasn't our politicians who said X, we aren't nearly as bad as you".
Going back to the summer riots, you had tepid condemnation from politicians. At the same time, media influencers, news-personalities, celebrities, etc. were justifying them. By having decentralized propaganda, the claim can be (truthfully) made that the politicians condemned the riots, even though it's not the politicians driving the narrative.
This provides lots of cover in comparison and lets the left play the "holier than thou" style of card when similar outcomes happen.
For example, much of the propaganda on the right will come from news service style organizations or political officials themselves, which will then be echoed by a number of followers. On the other hand, the left relies on celebrities, entertainment shows, and then reinforce that with echo-chambers. This lets their politicians offer lighter touches when it comes to direct confrontational comments, which in the end lets the left say "Look, this is different, it wasn't our politicians who said X, we aren't nearly as bad as you".
Going back to the summer riots, you had tepid condemnation from politicians. At the same time, media influencers, news-personalities, celebrities, etc. were justifying them. By having decentralized propaganda, the claim can be (truthfully) made that the politicians condemned the riots, even though it's not the politicians driving the narrative.
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