Fake News in Europe

[mindlight]

More and more I find myself agreeing with Donald Trump about fake news organisations around the world. In that context the desire to talk direct to the people through Twitter makes some sense even if the information that we receive through Trumps Tweets is not always perfectly thought through. Indeed the social media revolution generally threatens the dominance of an arrogant, leftist, liberal elite which is why they are so keen on getting controls on Facebook etc.

Just to take two major ones for example the BBC and Spiegel Magasine.

The BBC has a leftist social liberal culture employing a disproportionate number of gay people for instance and speaks affirmatively about LGBT issues, macroevolution, multiculturalism and false religions. The language and culture of political correctness is implicit in the whole way they present the news. They claim to speak from a point of being not racist, not sexist, not homophobic and open to all religions and secular viewpoints and there is little to no discrimination about the strengths and weaknesses of the various worldviews. Sources are assessed by their perceived impartiality vis a vis these kinds of issues and dismissed if they hold strong views to the contrary on any of these matters. The BBC is funded by a public license system and should technically represent the views of the British public. But in practice there is a built in bias against conservative Christians and in favour of a metropolitan arrogant, leftist liberal elite and the Westminster party system. The BBC may quote conservative MPs a lot but many of these are social liberals of the BBC ilk also. One of the reasons UKIP and BREXIT was such a shock to the BBC culture was because of the lack of representation within the organisation of people from these kinds of viewpoint and it exposed how badly the BBC represents what many people actually think in the UK. But BBC Staff will not recognise the biases against conservative Christian outlooks implicit in the way they do news and truly think they model impartiality and fair discussion. Their presentation of Trump and the American Republican party generally illustrates this bias.

Spiegel magazine has one of the best reputations of any European magasines for investigative journalism and a substantial readership in Germany and abroad. It prides itself on exposing the corruption and malpractice of political leaders. It employs 80 fact checkers on its staff. But it has major blind spots when it comes to the discussion of right-wing politics and has virtually no constructive interaction with non Catholic conservative Christianity especially. In part this is to do with Germanys history but also to do with the ideological slant of its editorial staff and the dominance of liberalism in academic theological and political circles here and so American politics is misread, misunderstood and the result is almost always an implicit bias against Trump and conservative American politics in the way news is presented. Spiegel is thus also guilty of feeding German anti-Americanism in recent years.

 

[redleghunter]

Thanks for giving us a European perspective.

 

[grasping the after wind]

Due to the human psychological need to be considered a part of the favored status group , if the culture presented to most people by the prevailing media is in line with a specific POV, then most people will publicly fall in line with that POV. Either because that is their actual POV ( which may have occurred due to the influence of the prevailing media ) or because they do not wish others to know that that is not their POV for fear of losing status within their sub group. As in the western world the culture presented by the media and the education system is decidedly left leaning it is rare for the average person to publicly announce distaste for a leftist POV. However, because the west still has a preponderance of secret ballot voting , when the average person votes, they can vote without fear of social repercussions. This dissonance between what they hear in their echo chamber and what happens in the voting booth leads the true leftist to be confused about how many people actually are in agreement with them. Before any vote they expect a landslide in their favor and after they do not get that result they conclude there must have been something wrong with the voting or the voters. As there is now a very real attempt by the left to further silence verbal opposition this will become an even larger problem as the gap between what they hear and what is reality will grow even wider.

 

[mindlight]

Due to the human psychological need to be considered a part of the favored status group , if the culture presented to most people by the prevailing media is in line with a specific POV, then most people will publicly fall in line with that POV. Either because that is their actual POV ( which may have occurred due to the influence of the prevailing media ) or because they do not wish others to know that that is not their POV for fear of losing status within their sub group. As in the western world the culture presented by the media and the education system is decidedly left leaning it is rare for the average person to publicly announce distaste for a leftist POV. However, because the west still has a preponderance of secret ballot voting , when the average person votes, they can vote without fear of social repercussions. This dissonance between what they hear in their echo chamber and what happens in the voting booth leads the true leftist to be confused about how many people actually are in agreement with them. Before any vote they expect a landslide in their favor and after they do not get that result they conclude there must have been something wrong with the voting or the voters. As there is now a very real attempt by the left to further silence verbal opposition this will become an even larger problem as the gap between what they hear and what is reality will grow even wider.

This effort to silence people has been extended to multinational recruitment policies, mission statements and best practices. People who express what leftists call "extreme" views even in their own time are being hounded out of top positions. In the political realm thankfully we have secret ballot and people can still vote their consciences. But jobs and government employment is becoming very difficult for Christians. Yesterday an old school friend defriended me on face book for saying that gay practice was sinful. She went to a Christian school, calls herself a Christian but she has bought into the delusion that is being peddled in our media, by our governments and by our schools and universities. It is a sad situation but hardly unique.

 

[grasping the after wind]

This effort to silence people has been extended to multinational recruitment policies, mission statements and best practices. People who express what leftists call "extreme" views even in their own time are being hounded out of top positions. In the political realm thankfully we have secret ballot and people can still vote their consciences. But jobs and government employment is becoming very difficult for Christians. Yesterday an old school friend defriended me on face book for saying that gay practice was sinful. She went to a Christian school, calls herself a Christian but she has bought into the delusion that is being peddled in our media, by our governments and by our schools and universities. It is a sad situation but hardly unique.

Not knowing you or your friend I will not comment on that but i know that a person saying something is sinful is often taken as an intolerant comment and the person is then accused of being bigoted against a group. It only seems to be certain practices wherein behavior is not allowed to be considered sinful. No one , for instance gets offended if one says greed is sinful or gossip is sinful and stands up for the greedy and gossipy calling those that label those behaviors sinful as bigots. There are mixed signals on gluttony and drunkeness but for gay sex there is simply no wiggle room in the culture calling gay sex sinful is unacceptable hate speech to a large portion of society and , in the name of tolerance, will not be tolerated.

 

[mindlight]

Not knowing you or your friend I will not comment on that but i know that a person saying something is sinful is often taken as an intolerant comment and the person is then accused of being bigoted against a group. It only seems to be certain practices wherein behavior is not allowed to be considered sinful. No one , for instance gets offended if one says greed is sinful or gossip is sinful and stands up for the greedy and gossipy calling those that label those behaviors sinful as bigots. There are mixed signals on gluttony and drunkeness but for gay sex there is simply no wiggle room in the culture calling gay sex sinful is unacceptable hate speech to a large portion of society and , in the name of tolerance, will not be tolerated.

Yes it is a selective morality and there are certain key idols. My understanding from previous threads is that the major male sins mentioned in a Catholic confessional are lust and gluttony and the main female ones pride and vanity. But there is no perspective or forgiveness when you say to the high priests of the new political correctness that gay sex is hateful to God , or that even moderate Muslims are trapped in the prison of a false religiosity or that the mainstream account of our origins may not be something that any scientist could actually demonstrate or if you say that one culture may be more dysfunctional than another.

 

[The~Cerberus~Infinite]

The spectre of censorship, hate speech and thought crimes emanating from Europe is deeply disturbing. Just as are the EU's actions against member states like Hungary and Poland for simply wanting to remain free of the most violent religion currently on Earth. And the pendulum swing will result in a rise of European ethno-nationalism which will have some very predictable results.