Polarising perspective

Polarising perspective link (Illusion, Divide and rule, Social fracturing)
File:Polarising political spectrum.jpg A modern illustration of how the commercially-controlled media depicts the political spectrum. In the 21st century, the enemy image of "extremism" is used to try to promote the corporate media as reliable and "middle of the road".
A way of framing the debates that effectively hinders consensus and promotes disharmony.

A Polarising perspective is one which has the effect of polarising people, promoting conflict and moving people away from conciliation and common ground. They are to described here, but should not be used.

Party politics: "Left" v. "Right"

Full article: Political spectrum

The political spectrum is a key metaphor that is used to prevent consensus so as to promote social control. The colours and names of the left/right parties are not consistent across the world, but the notion of "political opposition" is. Parties are opposed to one another. The political spectrum tends to narrow range of policies and issues towards a one-dimensional "us v. them".

Human "races": "Blacks" and "Whites"

Full article: Racism

Human skin colour is just one of many physiological differences between humans - both between and within populations. In reality, humans skin is neither black nor white, but labelling it so and repeatedly claiming that this difference is important has been used as a divide and conquer method of social control, one that has worked effectively over centuries.

Enemy images

Full article: Enemy image

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Enemy images are tools to facilitate expression of hostile emotions. By obscuring the real people behind them, such labels promote conflict and hamper understanding of reality, which is inevitably multi-faceted.

Enemy images are derogatory exonyms, i.e. labels used by "us" to put down "them". Since this polarises discussions an invites mutual antipathy, like other polarising perspectives, editors make strenuous efforts to avoid them.

"Terrorism"

Full article: Terrorism

False flag attacks make up a large but unacknowledged proportion of what the commercially-controlled media terms "terrorism". The 1980 Bologna bombing, blamed on communists but later exposed as a part of NATO's Operation Gladio was just one part of the decades long Strategy of Tension.

"Terrorist" is a label the ideology of which was developed at a conference in Jerusalem in 1979 for global use as a polarising perspective. After establishing this, it was launched by the September 11 attacks. {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Polarising perspective |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=George W. Bush|+sep=, |Has text=“Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.” |Is about=Polarising perspective,terrorism, coalition of the willing|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=20 September 2001 |Sourced from= |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName= |Has sourceURL=

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“Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.”
George W. Bush (20 September 2001)  Template:Cn

These forces are pitted against the diametrically opposed "counter-terrorists" which employ similarly no-holds-barred methods.

Polarising language

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Yearly usage frequency of prejudice denoting terms in The New York Times and The Washington Post news and opinion articles, between 2010 and 2019.

A 2021 study of 27 million news and opinion articles written between 1970 and 2019 and published in the 47 largest corporate media outlets in the United States such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal or Fox News, counted the prevalence of words that describe prejudice such as racism, sexism, islamophobia, anti-Semitism and homophobia. The study found clear trend of increasing prevalence of prejudice related terms, of up to 638% for the term racist, between 2010 and 2019. The authors found that "it is noteworthy that prejudice-denoting words are markedly increasing in prevalence alongside long-term decreases in overt expression of prejudice yet recent increases in the perceived prevalence of such prejudice among the general public." The uptick indicate a deliberate campaign to realign politics into polaristation around these terms.

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