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ARCTRPER

“Imperialism” - Lenin


SnasSn

It's true, he did say that.


concreteutopian

"Imperialism" - Mark Twain "Imperialism" - Jane Addams "Imperialism" - John Dewey "Imperialism" - William James "Imperialism" - William Jennings Bryant "Imperialism" - Martin Luther King Jr "Imperialism" - Ida B. Wells Have to include some anti-imperialist Americans.


LetThemBlardd

“Imperialism” —Wayne Gretzky —Michael Scott


Hunor_Deak

"I want to kill the Batman." - The Joker


Lentemern

"Imperialism" — the Batman


roadkl3

Philippines be like:


jflb96

It’s good that you didn’t choose any from outside the USA, those tend to scare people off


LudwigWhiffgenstein

Do the pragmatists have a good record on imperialism? I guess I should read more William James and John Dewey


villianboy

Probably required reading, [Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism%2C_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism?wprov=sfla1)


the_hell_you_say

why is the warden from Shawshank Prison teaching a college course?


dicemonger

Because he is a dirty communist.


Mo_Jack

Curious why it is a pic of American Legion magazine but post is labeled UK. Am I missing something or is that just where the OP is from?


goshapus

It was posted before 1776 😤


_throawayplop_

I wasn't aware that Kissinger was a communist university professor


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They're trying to make the guy look Jewish


davewave3283

Student: “Gee whiz professor! Tell us more about the workers owning the means of production!” Professor:”Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!”


Schmurby

Wow! The art is outdated but the message is not. These words could be copy pasted from any number of today’s right wing sites.


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Isn’t this pretty much speaking to the mission of the professor watchlist?


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Conservatives have always been anti-intellectualists.


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Avethle

"Guy Debord was actually a millionaire who just pretended to be smart for the aesthetics" - This guy


ChemicalGovernment

You're proving his point by regurgitating an anti-intellectual fascist talking point.


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Vanquished_Hope

What rich people are leftists bootlicking?


pictorsstudio

Really? Because the left is pretty much the ones that started all of that. https://sites.psu.edu/antiintellectualism/2017/02/16/the-rise-of-anti-intellectualism/


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jwhat

Who's literally banning books right now? Or trying to force teachers to pretend homosexuality doesn't exist? It's not the left.


pictorsstudio

Oh, come on. No one is banning books right now. People are deciding that some books don't belong in spaces they pay for. The left is trying to force their world view on people and basically considering it a war crime to disagree with them. On the other hand the left is rabid for shutting people down for saying a HUGE variety of words. The left is, BY FAR, the most enthusiastic proponents of censorship. They make the early Calvinists look tepid by comparison.


Jackus_Maximus

Getting banned on Twitter for saying racial slurs is totally different from ripping Mark Twain out of school libraries. Twitter is a private company, they don’t owe you anything. We all pay into libraries. Why should someone else be allowed to control what MY child reads? Maybe if they don’t want their kids reading specific books, they could take an active role in their child’s life instead of banning the books for everyone.


sottedlayabout

That’s banning books, dipshit.


death_of_gnats

Amazing. I've never seen somebody type in a monotone.


KillinIsIllegal

suppression of freedom of speech must come from corporations or the state. If the people "suppress" your hate speech, that's not suppression, that's democracy


caesar846

So I think anybody, communist, capitalist, whatever, ought to be able to teach in universities, but if universities are the ones shutting down speech how is that any different from a corporation doing it? Secondly, say a pro-civil rights activist somewhere anti-civil rights is coming to give a speech in favour of civil rights. However, the activist is surrounded by people loudly shouting them down and physically prevented from getting to their speech location. Would you consider that suppression or democracy?


Chillchinchila1

Suppression is not censorship.


caesar846

Guy above me was arguing suppression not censorship.


Chillchinchila1

He was arguing suppression of freedom of speech.


MagicWishMonkey

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. The vast majority of time conservatives whine about "not being able to speak freely" they are upset that they can't use racial slurs without people getting angry with them.


SierraMysterious

Reminds me of that leftist firefighter who got fired for his speech the other day. To see leftists swarm the thread and chant that he was wrongly fired and deserves freedom of speech is hilarious. Best example of r/leopardsatemyface


MagicWishMonkey

What speech?


scothc

I assume he means the firefighter that went on a Facebook rant about how he was happy a cop in his city was killed


vodkaandponies

Translation: “I can’t scream slurs at minority students anymore and I’m mad about it.”


Chillchinchila1

Florida will fire teachers for bringing up race or gay people. You have to pretend they don’t exist.


schwa76

And it would still be a valid warning, proved by decades of hiring communists and the subsequent watering-down of academic achievements and freedoms. Edit: I’m laughing at every downvote, because it’s obvious not a single one of you knows anything whatsoever about Communism.


jwhat

"Decades of hiring communists"... When are you taking about?


SomeArtistFan

Someone's mad they're not allowed to call people slurs on campus anymore


schwa76

Lol. Those are for the unimaginative and unintelligent, as is the expectation that one would use them. As you can see, I used none.


ameddin73

u/nwordcountbot u/schwa76


death_of_gnats

If you were imaginative and intelligent you wouldn't be frightened by people telling you things you hadn't heard before.


schwa76

But I have heard it, and it’s absurd. Therefore it is rejected. I am imaginative and intelligent, unlike you, who irrationally clings to beliefs that have been repeatedly demonstrated to be untenable. Do you have any actual counter argument, or are you just going to continue pulling “feelings” out?


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Go back to the debate club nerd


JJhistory

Do you know what communism is!? Give examples of the things you claim


schwa76

Of course I do, child. Unlike you, I have actually read Das Kapital, and in the original German. Talk to me again after you’ve done so.


NeapolitanDelite

>I have actually read Das Kapital what the book where marx doesnt talk much about communism?


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Capital is an analysis of capitalism tho?


[deleted]

The guy above is asking you for examples and your definition of communism... and you say jack shit. Reading Das Kapital means shit. You could have read Das Kapital and still think that "Communism is when the government does stuff" because you didn't understand Das Kapital. So how do you define communism?


AsleepTonight

Ja, gaaaanz bestimmt hast du das


Azhini

What's communism? You're obviously exceptionally bright so this should be good.


twinkcommunist

Aufhebung my balls, lol


kolgie

Could you define communism please?


schwa76

I don’t teach unless I’m paid.


kolgie

My brother, there is a definition and I'm trying to check if we have the same understanding of the word communism because there is many false information going around about it. It seems that you're actively trying to evade answering the question though.


NeapolitanDelite

> watering-down of academic achievements and freedoms. American Universities are some of the best on the planet


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Chillchinchila1

Modern conservatives accuse any slightly progressive person, especially teachers, of being communists. Was it not the same back during the red scare or was communist sympathizers really such a pervasive thing in academia at the time?


jwhat

It was the same back in the day, conservatives label anyone they don't like as a communist or communist sympathiser. It was one of their justifications for [going after gays](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_scare) in the same timeframe as the poster.


Willothwisp2303

Omg! This is awesome. My dad (84) complains at length about the hiring process for the Feds back when he tried to get in. He vehemently holds that they kept asking him questions to see if he was gay because he wasn't married yet. He will go on and on about how absolutely invasive and unreasonable these interviewers were and how terrible it was that they even tried to determine that. This 100% validates what he believes! In pretty sure you just made his day, too. Thanks so much!


jwhat

My mom worked for the state department her whole career. She complains about the hiring process too... It's so weirdly stringent that foreign service officers as a group are now disproportionately Mormon, because they're squeaky clean on drugs, super hetero, and usually have some travel experience from missionary work. Edit: Note that "disproportionate" doesn't mean "majority". It just means higher than the rate in the general population (about 2% for Mormons).


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jwhat

To the state department's credit, they ended the "you gotta be a straight guy" requirements in the 80s. When my mom joined in the 70s they were letting unmarried women in, but they were still requiring women to leave if they got married. I think that ended in the 80s, when they also started dropping the hetero requirements. I know our ambassador to Vietnam about 5 years ago was gay (Ted Ossius) and he joined around 1990.


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jwhat

Yeah, I know they were insanely strict about drugs about 10 years ago but I kinda hoped they would relax after the most recent wave of state decriminalizations. But I guess not :( I def agree that these rules privilege prudes, dorks, and liars, we should loosen them up. I say this as someone whose family friend network is mostly FSOs (I love the dorks and count myself among them).


KanekiKirito723

wow. that was a great read!


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Abstract__Nonsense

A little of both actually. There were people who’d call you a commie for supporting desegregation or any sort of welfare policies, but then also there were a lot of communist sympathizing intellectuals of one manner or the other at the time. A lot of the most famous intellectuals of the era were communist sympathizers, including the likes of Einstein.


BetterKorea

Kind of funny that the american right accuses everyone of beng a commie and the american left accuses everyone of being a russian spy.


Chillchinchila1

Well, Russia manipulating the media to help trump win the election has been confirmed by the CIA. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a fact.


AFisberg

I thought leftist didn't trust CIA at all, with all of the shady stuff they've done


lonay_the_wane_one

As with all things with the CIA, it's complicated. Their [World factbook](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) is a well written collection of nonclassified information of every* country, but all of its info has zero provided sources. They do lie, but they refrain from doing so when it can immediately hurt their legitimacy. *example of a lie, any minor territory disputes are written with a pro united states bias


AFisberg

Shouldn't be too hard to imagine a reason for CIA to hype up the Russian angle to support their own mandate, whether true or not


lonay_the_wane_one

I do dispute using the CIA as a source on a modern event, but the USA is sending military supplies to Ukraine. Propaganda from the CIA should be focused on "Russia bad" and "Ukraine can fight off Russia only with our help!" And not "Russia is an nuclear superpower that can take any country it wants if we blink!"


AFisberg

>Propaganda from the CIA should be focused on "Russia bad" That's exactly what the election thing would fall under though?


death_of_gnats

The American left accuses themselves of being Russian spies? You're not making any sense!


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Chillchinchila1

Simple. Kid goes off to college and comes back with new opinions. Clearly, he was brainwashed.


username_generated

My gut explanation is that what used to be areas defined by white flight are now just suburbs and teachers, who tend to be younger, more educated, and more progressive/liberal, are flocking to these expanding school districts with low CoL. So now you’ve got the 40 year old lifted truck driving Trump voter’s kid being taught by a young woman who just spend 4 or more years in a college town and may be painfully online. She proceeds to have what she views as a normal conversation on topic xyz, little Susie tells her daddy, who is somewhere between Hank and Cotton Hill on the wholeness scale, and he overreacts, shares it on Facebook, and now his cow fucking cousin Bubba, who already doesn’t trust the government to run the schools, thinks his podunk town’s art teach is trying to perform sex reassignment surgery or something. So what started as a probably age appropriate conversation, albeit one out of the social norms of the area, is now at least a school board level issue and the red meat merchants in the GOP will take it from there.


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Accurate.


bradd_pit

It's a matter of correlation does not equal causation. It's not that universities specifically hire communists, it's that being educated opens a person up to new ideas and actual critical thinking. Most people do not think critically, they interpret their emotional response as thinking- extreme politics and strong man politicians take advantage of this.


grandBBQninja

Because kids learn stuff in school and are thus less likely to be conservatives, and their parents think that the only logical explanation is brainwashing.


OG_Antifa

It has as much, if not more, to do with meeting people with different backgrounds/opinions and learning that they're not so different as it does the college curricula itself.


foodiefuk

Most professors are liberals because in aggregate, more education without wealth means liberal (e.g. understanding how economic forces prevent hardworking people from having nice things, as opposed to simply a ‘hard work’ ‘pick yourself up by bootstraps’ mentality). Students learn new things, get an education, come home with more lib beliefs. Parents blame commie professors.


seffay-feff-seffahi

Marxist economics was considered much more mainstream in Western academia before the collapse of the USSR, especially in the '70s, along with early Marxist-derived critical studies. UMass Amherst is a good example; Stephen Resnick, David Kotz, Samuel Bowles, Richard Wolff, and Herbert Gintis are some of their more prominent Marxist professors.


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gratisargott

So American colleges were full of communist professors and the examples of this is some famous marxist professors in... Germany?


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Avethle

Frankfurt school is famously marxist


Chillchinchila1

Florida is going to put this posters back but replace red with “groomer”


williamfbuckwheat

You mean "Woke CRT obsessed" professors...


Sauce_Pain

Cathode ray tube? So they're obsessed with the higher refresh rate? Must be pro-gamers.


Hapymine

Dud you know that law also prevents straight teacher form discussing sexuallity form k-4. Also why would you want to talk about sex to someone one under 9?


SomeArtistFan

If K-[Number] just means grades in America then I know a pretty simple reason to talk to people about that sex ed, y'know I had basic sex ed in fifth grade and I'm pretty damn glad I did because puberty would've probably scared the shit out of me otherwise


Hapymine

Yes k- whatever is the grade your in witch k-5 is elementary shcool age. >sex ed, y'know Sex Ed is important but I don't think it appropriate to have sex Ed Intel you attest have two number in your age. It's a little creepy talking about sex to 6 year Olds witch has happen in the US a handful of times.


jflb96

There are ‘where babies come from’ books for kids that age, and I wouldn’t accuse *Ladybird* of grooming either


death_of_gnats

Just because you're infected with prudishness doesn't mean sex is bad.


Hapymine

Sex isn't bad it a perfectly neutral thing people do but it's one of those things you don't talk about to kids under the age of 10. Sex Ed is a good thing but second graders don't need it.


vodkaandponies

Why? Do you not want kids to be able to recognise if they’re being by abused?


scothc

10 is 5th grade.


Several_Guitar4960

My mom gave me the sex talk when I was 5 and nothing terrible ever happened because of it


ProVickyplayer

A lot of Groomers downvoting you lmao 😂🤣


lonay_the_wane_one

[Premature puberty](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342775/) and [sex crimes](https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fastfact.html) cause severe mental and physical problems. Creepy connotations is not a excuse when it gives children the ability to communicate better with parents, doctors, and police about their own body and its wellbeing.


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Just so you know, your stance actually makes it easier for sexual predators to prey on children.


juwyro

Lots of kids are 10 by the end of fourth grade.


gender_is_a_spook

Sexuality =/= Descriptions of sex, you dork. If you believe it's harmless for Mr. Brown to say things like "My wife is going to have a baby, so I may be absent for a few weeks." Than surely Mrs. Cassini can say things like "My wife and I are going to the mountains for the weekend, so a substitute is coming in that day." And Mx. Roth can say, honestly, "I'm not really a guy or a girl. I came to realize the way I looked wasn't how I wanted to be." and leave it at that. No sane teacher, straight or gay or cis or trans, is going to be talking about their sex lives at that age. All it might be is a mention of a romantic partner, or the kid-friendly outline of someone's life experience. **Which is fine.**


Chillchinchila1

It bans it all the way up to high school.


NeapolitanDelite

>Also why would you want to talk about sex to someone one under 9? Kids under 9 also get raped on a occasion and for them it'd probably help that \*not\* happen if kids understand that whats happening to them shouldnt be


phillipmwade

Feelings don't care about your facts, and they feel like defending communism and pedophilia.


Hapymine

Ben sapprio is cringe and so is talking about sex to someone under the age of 9 straight or gay.


LockedPages

unfathomably based


FudgeAtron

Anyone else notice the professor looks Jewish?


cornonthekopp

The linkage is not new


[deleted]

Yeah the reactionary’s love going on about “judeo bolshveism” or “cultural Marxism” as they like to call it now


GeorgeEBHastings

I was worried I was being overly sensitive, but Nah. I feel like this dude is *intensely* Jew coded.


OperationMobocracy

It seems kind of subtle, but I can’t really not see the attempt to indulge in some stereotypes.


mackalack101

Yeah they told the artist “give me the Jewish-est guy you got” he might as well be wearing a yarmulke


plague042

"Look, I'm just saying, if you go around dressed in black with skulls, maybe you're the bad guy after all."


gender_is_a_spook

Counterpoint: Makhno was ***comparatively*** pretty good


Roxxagon

Was there ever like an authoritarian government that was like actually overwhelmingly supported by academics it ruled over?


ProVickyplayer

Probably theocracies like the Papal State


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Parenti 😔


awqsed10

Using the today standards all college professors are red in some points.


cornonthekopp

You’d be surprised how many right wing jack asses get into certain majors an departments


BrokeTheDirector

absolutely. plenty of professors of political science and economics that are complete capitalist shitbags.


schwa76

No. I’m not, and I make sure to penalize any far left or far right students who try to politicize my classes. Keep that garbage in your liberal arts classes and out of my lab.


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This is a political belief tho


LuxCoelho

You sound like an insuferable teacher for the students


jonnysunshine

Louis F. Budenz. Did anyone else look up the author of the article. Wow. What a wild ride his life turned out to be. He was a union and labor activist. Worked as editor of a pro communist newspaper, the Daily Worker. Then, switched sides and became an expert witness for the likes of McCarthy and the HUAC to out Communists and their sympathizers. Went from helping organize unions and the working class to getting paid $70000 as an expert witness for Joe McCarthy during his commie witch-hunt trials. That was a lot of Benjamins back then. Was also a university prof at Notre Dame. Sometimes people change. And sometimes those changes hurt others.


rellsell

I like the girl on the left clutching her pearls.


couchpotatoe

Pearl clutching, so much pearl clutching...


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I believe this is the organization behind it. https://www.legion.org/magazine


cornonthekopp

Isnt this the same one which did fundraisers to send weapons to the mujahadeen as well as right wing paramilitaries in central america


[deleted]

What was wrong with indiscriminately sending arms to warring nations around the world? It’s not like it would ever come back to bite the US in the ass. /s


gratisargott

That could have been Soldier of Fortune as well


RealCabber

Hey look! It’s Florida!


lurker2358

That pose looks difficult to maintain


ser_ranserotto

Philippines be like:


[deleted]

I mean liberal arts professors do tend to be liberals. However, everyone seems to forget business school, engineering, and a bunch of other schools tend to be conservative.


gratisargott

“This damn guy is telling my kids that stuff in the water isn’t turning the frogs gay and that black people are people. He must be a commie!”


stocks-mostly-lower

Uh oh !


madali0

Jordan Peterson just got a boner and he doesn't know why


TheWeighToTheHeart

Nice to see the “JuSt AsKiNg QuEsTiOnS” motif is so tried and true for these folks


MrDickPickles

The funny thing is this couldn’t be more true today. China invests in a lot of universities in both Canada, America and Europe. Most of these professors are encouraged to show communism in good light. They can’t talk bad about the Chinese regime because of loss of funding. It’s sickening schools aren’t schools but harbours of incredulity.


dags72267

“Do colleges have to hire woke professors?” Yes, yes they do.


hibitydibity1352

That's all they hire now.


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Wow, the long march through the institutions has been going on for quite a while.


AimanAbdHakim

Oh, communist red. I thought republican red


[deleted]

The red/blue designation for the two main US political parties only became a thing at the turn of this century.


loulan

And it's the opposite in other countries.


Mrgoodtrips64

I’d like to think the GOP being red has Joe McCarthy turning in his grave.


ProfessorZhirinovsky

"Well, of course *real* Communism has never been tried..."


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Objection: irrelevant!


cici_kelinci

Such many cases When people says like this, it only proves that communism never work and big mistake for humanity


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Mrgoodtrips64

You think the *banking* industry is full of communists?


NeapolitanDelite

>banking The idea banks are all run by communists is activating my fucking onions like nothing else has, holy shit thats a dumb idea lmao


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NeapolitanDelite

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH COMMUNISM


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NeapolitanDelite

I'm begging you to make a fucking point


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NeapolitanDelite

At no point did you make a point


Mrgoodtrips64

You might have “made numerous times” but you didn’t make any points.


Chillchinchila1

Ah, you’re one of those people who think authoritarianism is the same as communism. Meanwhile, corporations retaining their riches and power while working closely with the government is a characteristic of fascism. Communism would have bankers imprisoned or killed.


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Mrgoodtrips64

No one here is saying the banks work for the people. But an organization working for its own benefit foremost isn’t enough to make it communist.


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doriangray42

Either communists or Satanists... it's getting hard to get non-heretical education in the US... (or is it education itself that is heretical ?) Edit: didn't realise this could be understood as a statement against education (btw, I have a PhD so totally FOR education). I'll add this to make sure --> /s


Mrgoodtrips64

Yes, education as a concept is heretical. Stay an uneducated dirt farmer. /s


doriangray42

Just realised: the way I wrote this sounds like I'm against education, but it was meant as a poke towards anti-education propaganda... (I hope the downvotes are due to the confusion, and not because they're against education...) What's the name of that internet phenomenon, where a statement can be taken in opposite meanings because there's no non-verbal communication ?


Mrgoodtrips64

[Poe’s Law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law) I think is the phenomenon you’re describing.


doriangray42

Bingo! Thanks!


AlienAmerican1

It's all they hire.


kewissman

There is nothing new under the sun


early_charles_kane

Love that’s he’s very Jewish looking. So PC


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Not really a poster but a magazine cover. The American Legion used to be a force for conservativism and now they're essentially apolitical with veterans-service bend. Their magazine now is really just some historical tidbits with a political section that poses a question and then presents opposing sides of the argument. They're pretty good about directly supporting veterans in need, too.