Re: Lapun Wankinmasta Re: the crucifixion scene
".....there goes my copy of Guernica!....." But your example, the painting Guernica, is in itself another propaganda piece and an example of the supposedly unquestionability of a viewpoint of an historical act. If propaganda is not challenged then it can soon grow into being accepted as 'fact', and sympathisers in the UK will soon start repeating the myth that ISIS were 'justified' in the act due to the American intervention.
The story behind the propaganda myth of Geurnica is a good example. The Republicans in the Spanish Civil War had a very active propaganda arm that co-operated with sympathetic Communist, Socialist and Anarchist groups all over the World, in hyping such events. Guernica represents one of their most successful efforts, so much so it has completely obscured both the fact that both sides routinely bombed Spanish civilians, but also their propagandizing of other acts of aerial bombing from the period. A similar propaganda effort was made around the earlier bombing of Getafe near Madrid (which spawned the immortal line "If you tolerate this then your children will be next" on a propaganda poster which included a photo of a dead child who was not killed at Getafe - http://airminded.org/2009/10/11/the-non-atrocity-of-getafe/). The hysterics around Geurnica reflected the Republic's and their allies' frustrations and desperation at how the fighting in the Cantabrian pocket had turned against them, mainly due to the Nationalist's more effective use of air power. They wanted international popular opinion to turn against the Nationalists, and they especially wanted some form of international intervention to curtail the activities of the Italian and German 'volunteers' manning the bombers that were pounding Republican ground forces. This was more than hypocritical given that the Republicans were happily using Russian crews in SB-2 bombers against Nationalist towns and cities, and had been the first in the War to employ modern bombers (in the shape of French-supplied Potez 540 aircraft) to attack civilian areas under Nationalist control.
So, you have merely and unwittingly supplied a good reason to block such propaganda before it becomes 'fact'.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
