The new propaganda production disguised as educational children’s literature by the American Psychological Association is, even by the brazen standards of corporate state propaganda, shocking in its brainwashing duplicity.
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Via Matt Orfalea (emphasis added):
The American Psychological Association (APA), which infamously conspired with the CIA to justify torture during the Bush-era “war on terror”, published a new children’s book last month to “pre-bunk” children from conspiracy theories.
The APA’s new Magination Press kid's book titled True or False? The Science of Perception, Misinformation, and Disinformation, mis/disinforms its young readers on several topics, including racism, gender, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The APA is here to help the youth of America “outsmart their brains” by learning to blindly parrot whatever authorities (like the APA, conveniently) tell them is true and ignore the rest — especially, we will see, literally anything whatsoever on the internet that bypasses the “gatekeepers.”
Via American Psychological Association (emphasis added):
This book explores how we think and perceive and why false beliefs, superstitions, opinions, misinformation, or wild guesses can just stick around and mess things up. You’ll see how misunderstandings and misuse of scientific findings can lead people to the wrong conclusions. Readers learn how to outsmart their brain to gain critical thinking skills and find ways to identify and correct false beliefs and disinformation.
Our big brains are super-efficient but glitchy. Scientists estimate that 90% of what we see, hear, smell, or sense never really sinks in. Instead, we pick up on the big things, general impressions, or important stuff and end up leaving our brains to fill in the missing info. And on top of that, people sometimes twist information on purpose. False beliefs can be shared from person to person or go viral in a flash, often by people who think the info is true.
I’m going to go out on a wild limb here and guess that COVID magically springing from pangolins to humans, XX/XY chromosomes being transphobic conspiracy theory, and Russia bankrolling Trump don’t make the “disinformation” list according to the APA.
In addition to claiming that “disinformation can be spread just by asking a question,” the book also admonishes children not to trust anything that isn’t printed in corporate state media because “gatekeeping” (a euphemism for censorship) by trusted authorities (government and corporations) keeps them safe:
Unlike books, newspapers, or trusted news shows, the internet does not have a gatekeeping mechanism. It doesn’t have a way to fact-check information for accuracy before it is made available to the public. This means a lot of what you read or see online or on social media might not be reliable. Or exactly true. And some people can take advantage of that to spread disinformation.
Other highlights of the book include Hillary Clinton being a victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy that cost her the 2016 election, conspiracy theorists somehow causing or worsening COVID-19 by saying true things, and black people in America being existentially threatened in the workplace on account of white supremacy.
I like to look up what these people, like the book’s author, Jacqueline B. Toner, look like, and it’s exactly what you would expect: a middle-aged cat lady with the pharmaceutical SSRI lizard eyes.
