chapotraphouse

Apparently learning doesn't exist to hexbear lmao. You can 100% do due diligence, find reliable information, educate yourself, and try to form a principled and informed worldview. You are not ever immune to propaganda but acting like everyone is equally credulous and willing to simply blindly follow reactionary propaganda is silly IMO. This doesn't have anything to do with inherent differences or vulnerabilities, but material conditions which can allow for this, and there are people who despite upbringings steeped in this propaganda manage to shake it and investigate, be critical.

Maybe I'm off base but I didn't even jump to the "everyone is dumb but OP and the smarties who are propaganda immune" interpretation of this post at all. I think the best way to look at vulnerability to propaganda is not with a sense of superiority but as an opportunity to educate oneself and others to help recognize the signs of this reactionary propaganda. And no, I don't think both sidesing this is fair at all - aren't leftists supposed to have the basis of our political ideology founded in theory and analysis of history? That's certainly a more rigorous interrogation of preconceived notions than what any lib absorbs to form their worldview.