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Context is important. Have the stones to do what needs to be done.

Eddie Adams wasn’t trying to make a statement when he took the photo, which went on to win a Pulitzer. In fact, he resented how people interpreted it without knowing the full context. Most Americans had no idea who Nguyen Van Lem was or what he did.

South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan was Lem’s executioner and a friend of the colonel he had murdered. He later immigrated to the U.S. and faced deportation due to being accused of war crimes, but Eddie Adams always vouched for him and apologized for taking the photo.

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The sole survivor of the family Nguyen Van Lem murdered was Huan Nguyen, who was only nine at the time. He later immigrated to the U.S. and went on to become the highest ranked Vietnamese-American officer in the military when he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the US Navy.

Context is important. Have the stones to do what needs to be done. Eddie Adams wasn’t trying to make a statement when he took the photo, which went on to win a Pulitzer. In fact, he resented how people interpreted it without knowing the full context. Most Americans had no idea who Nguyen Van Lem was or what he did. South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan was Lem’s executioner and a friend of the colonel he had murdered. He later immigrated to the U.S. and faced deportation due to being accused of war crimes, but Eddie Adams always vouched for him and apologized for taking the photo. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FA71kbJUYAIhTlO?format=jpg&name=small The sole survivor of the family Nguyen Van Lem murdered was Huan Nguyen, who was only nine at the time. He later immigrated to the U.S. and went on to become the highest ranked Vietnamese-American officer in the military when he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the US Navy.

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[–] • 5 pts

Remember the "Napalm Girl"? Just another lie pedaled by the US media at the time. It was RVN planes that dropped that ordnance.

[–] • 6 pts

Yeah, showing us child pornography in 9th grade. I recall being astounded that they would show this to us.

It's propaganda. All of these photos they showed us from 'Nam, from muh holocaust- all propaganda.

They use the first rule of propaganda: make your target audience feel an extreme emotion, then hit them with the bullshit and they will be more receptive to it. For example, begin a lesson by talking about how the US napalmed innocent civilians. Then show the disturbed youngsters a photo of a pre-teen girl, nude, "fleeing from napalm". We instantly accepted the provided context because our minds were shocked by the image.

Same shit with those faked photos of Nazis and the camps. Show us a photo of a group of Russian captives in the throes of typhoid fever, then tell us "Look at these poor jews, they dindu nuffin, Nazis bad yeah?" Students are so shocked by the imagery that they don't pause and think "Wait... not one of these prisoners has jewish features...."

[–] • 2 pts

I unknowingly participated in holocaust propaganda once. A play. My character went on and on about how bad typhus was. Even in a propagandized play they admit that everyone was shitting themselves to death in the camps.

[–] • 4 pts

I unknowingly participated in spreading early covid hysteria.

They use guys like us, guys "ahead of the curve". They seed info in places they know we look. They knew we'd discover all those bullshit videos of exhausted, overworked Chinese people passing out or having seizures. They knew if they played some ominous music in the background, and released some bits and pieces of info about this "covid19 coronavirus", that people like me would find it.

Months before Trump, the CDC, WHO, or any "officials" even spoke the word "covid" publicly, I was already warning everyone I knew about a possible pandemic out of Wuhan. I recall saying to my college educated boss: "You hear about this virus in Wuhan, China? I think it's gonna change the world." He said "I don't think so, BloodyComet." Then, I don't see him for like a year because he has to "work remotely" because it's too dangerous for him to come to work.

I was fooled. I was fooled by the early covid propaganda. I was fooled by Trump. The first step to righting wrongs like this, is to admit where you failed, come to terms with it, and then harness the anger you feel at being used. They used us like filthy whores, and I means to make them pay up for my services....