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“Obama Kept Them in Cages” – The Pedophrasty of Politicians Exposed

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President Trump started off his day in attack mode (as is almost ubiquitous these days), exclaiming that “The Russian Witch Hunt is Rigged,” and how poll number show Americans rapidly losing faith in the ‘Russia collusion’ narrative. All of which explains their sudden shift to a new narrative – hitler-like separation (and caging) of poor desperate illegal immigrant children from their loving caring illegal immigrant parents.

While the media has been loathed to admit it – the separation policy is not a hitler-confirming Trump decision, it has been in place for many years and, as Trump tweeted, Obama faced similar headlines (though somehow was not compared to Hitler and lambasted in the media)…

Then took direct aim at The Democrats lack of a solution…

But as The Automatic Earth’s Raul Ilargi Meijer explains so eloquently below, the pedophrasty and bigoteering of politicians everywhere (ably assisted by a subservient liberal media) has enabled ‘fake news’ to become fact in an ever-increasing divergence from reality.

The two most viral photographs of the ‘Trump Separation Scandal’ have now been debunked, or at the very least been proven to have been used ‘out of context’. This is a dangerous development, as are the reasons to use them the way they have been. Both pictures are of children who had not been separated from their mothers at all. But both were used to depict just that: a child being taken away from its mother.

What’s dangerous about this is, first, that those who spread the narrative regardless of the truth may next permit themselves to use images from entirely different locations or times to make their point. Yes, children have been taken from parents at US borders. And attention for that is warranted, very much so. But playing loose with the facts turns those facts into a mere narrative in which nobody can tell fact from fiction anymore.

First, a week ago already, I saw this on RT: Debunked: Viral Image Of Crying, Caged Toddler ‘Detained By ICE’ Not What It Seems

Ergo: an activist journalist and undocumented immigrant makes it look as if a picture depicts something that in reality it did not. Note also that the article says he wanted to comment on the Trump immigration crackdown, because he has memories of the Obama immigration crackdown, when he saw children locked up. But then, hey, that’s social media, right? Anyone can say anything.

It’s different, though, when TIME Magazine uses such politics. And its editor-in-chief defends the use of the picture by saying it was the most visible symbol of something, even though he knew full well that the photo didn’t depict that something. That’s a mighty slippery scale. If they could have achieved the same effect with a picture of a overripe banana taken in the Pacific in the 1950’s, they probably would have used it. It’s the effect that counts, not the facts.

Fact-Check: Was Migrant Girl On US Border Taken From Mother? Unfounded

[ZH: And here’s the corrected version:]

Nassim Nicolas Taleb, of black swans and Fragility, has found the appropriate term for this ‘phenomenon’, and explains why it works so well that TIME apparently doesn’t care about the damage to its reputation caused by using photographs for such purposes.

Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams

That’s what is dangerous: seeing a photo of a child in distress makes people halt their critical thinking. That’s also why such photos are used. They help build a narrative that doesn’t have to be factual to shock people. But at that point TIME becomes a fiction magazine; it’s where it leaves journalism behind.

The narrative also depends to a large extent on the singularity of Trump’s brutality compared to other presidents and nations’ leaders. It seeks to single him out as being extremely cruel. That narrative will fall to pieces going forward, and not only because the stories behind the photos have now been exposed.

First, here’s a look at what happened under earlier US presidents, in this case Obama, published by the ACLU in May 2018:

ACLU Obtains Documents Showing Widespread Abuse Of Child Immigrants In US Custody

Then, what other ‘leaders’, who express their ‘disgust’ and worries at the Trump separation policies do at home. The Guardian yesterday:

Theresa May’s Brutal Family Separations Would Make Trump Blush

And the Sydney Morning Herald from December 2017:

Australia Is Wilfully Damaging The Health Of Children On Nauru To Make A Point – And It Is Appalling

See, what TIME Magazine and others do, using pictures of crying children regardless of their actual context, may make for an initially appealing narrative, but in the end their approach only distracts from what really matters. Which is that children need to be with their mothers (and preferably fathers).

Just reporting the facts on this is not only enough, it’s the only way to report on it. Once you start making up stuff, you’re done, and the truth is done.

US immigration laws are clearly not working; so change them. ICE is a terrible organization that has attracted far too many sociopaths. Close it down. Child abuse as a tool to instill fear has been an international political tool for a very long time. Those are the things that should be making headlines. Turning this into yet another anti-Trump narrative, using crying children as shortcuts to people’s emotions, doesn’t work, or not for long.

This is not about Trump. Trying to make it about him is not going to help those children. And that’s what you want, right? Right?


Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2018/06/23/obama-kept-them-in-cages-the-pedophrasty-of-politicians-exposed/


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    • FauxScienceSlayer

      Time magazine has been a CIA Operation Mockingbird propaganda outlet since 1947….despicable yellow journalism….

    • dennisR8

      In Columbia University in 1966 two students of Saul Alinsky (as well as Henry Marcuse and Antonio Gramsci) namely Richard Cloward and Francis Piven, concluded that they wanted to encourage Tens of millions to Hundreds of millions of illegal immigrants to invade the United States of America to promote welfare sufficient to destroy the economy of America by those banker gangsters of London and New York City. President Donald Trump hopefully will blow the whistle on these Marxist Communists while he is President. While hanging for TREASON, SEDITION, ESPIONAGE, Contract Murder, Pedophilia and Ninth Circle Satanic Child Sacrifice Murder of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and many other democrats.

    • Bob DD

      Whenever the Crazy media shows something shocking, like the that, 911 lie, of infamous fake school shooting. STOP, TAKE A DEEP BREATH, and ask: Is this really real, or another scare the people tactic to get us to push us into a baseless war, or gun grab, or throw a president out of office. THINK CRITICALLY! These bums don’t care about We the People one iota.

    • Slimey

      When the Negro and Democraps did it, it was OK. Trump DID NOT do this but it was the Negro that put them in cages. It was under his admininstration.

      So why are they MAD (literally) at Trump? They said the Negro wasn’t waycist (not true – he was a FOOL-blown one) but Trump is NOT a waycist yet they are insinuating he is one for obeying the Negro’s law and agenda to cage children.

      So this is about WHITE hatred! So who is the waycist now? :twisted:

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