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Civics 101

Propaganda

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

What is propaganda? How is it different from persuasion? And how has the US government used it, from the revolution to WWI to now?

Transcript

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0:00.0

What did you say your favorite card was again?

0:06.8

Six of diamonds.

0:07.8

No, I didn't say it was the jack card.

0:12.3

All right, I'm going to do a magic trick.

0:15.9

Do me a favor, cut that deck anywhere you want.

0:18.9

Now I'm going to just leave these here until the end of the recording.

0:22.9

I'm not going to touch them.

0:24.4

All right?

0:25.4

This by the way is one of the first tricks I ever learned.

0:28.1

If anybody out there listening, I'm a terrible, terrible magician.

0:32.1

But this is a technique called a force.

0:34.4

What's a force?

0:35.4

A force is when someone like takes a card believing that they had a choice, but they don't.

0:39.8

I told you to cut the deck randomly and you take the card you cut to, but I'm forcing

0:44.5

you to take the card I want.

0:47.0

Choice is an illusion here, Hannah.

0:50.8

And it doesn't just happen with cards.

0:53.2

Interesting stories about dead people voting.

0:58.1

Wow, amazing.

0:59.6

What pre and pair of elections we all have confidence in.

1:02.1

The sharing of bias and false news has become all too common on the line.

1:06.2

I think it was one of the coldest July's we've had in so long.

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