You're pulling in a lot more than anything I was talking about. The "foghorn" statement was wordplay of the concept of a "dog whistle," and I believe you understand what l was saying about claims of "DEI" often, in my opinion, being an indicator that someone is unhappy with demographic choices in media being based in personal bias against a given demographic. I grew up in a largely conservative region of the country & have conservative friends with whom I talk about politics, and those conversations are how I'm forming my opinion.
And yeah, fuck Margaret Sanger.
If you want to get into abortion, the question isn't "Why do they abort more black babies in NYC?". It's "Why do so many black women in NYC feel compelled to seek abortions?"
On the other hand, many people do want their tax money going towards DEI initiatives. Out of curiosity, do you know what a DEI department at, say, a university public health department does?
You're welcome to go into how NYC's being run, if you feel it's relevant
By the same token, lower taxes is often part of the Republican platform. That doesn't mean striving for lower taxes is suddenly Republican propaganda.
DEI is an approach to perceived socioeconomic problems, with clear connections to civil rights initiatives, and people who support that kind of thing tend to fall onto the left side of US politics. Thus, listing that as a part of the Democrat platform makes sense.
Project 2025 is a full-on agenda, rather than propaganda (which neither it nor DEI are). A closer analogy would be pushes to get religion back into schools.
What don't you like about it? Is it the underlying goals, or do you feel the execution is poor?
I see where you're coming from. I think I also see where some there may be some confusion: you're mixing up DEI and the propagandized idea of critical race theory that's been thrown around for the past few years to scare people into leaning into the culture war thing. They're two different things.
The difference between agenda and propaganda is that an agenda is simply a plan or set of goals. Propaganda is specifically material intended to sway someone's opinion one way or the other, and, in modern usage, it usually (though certainly not always) implies some level of dishonesty or stretching of the truth. To de-politicize it, an ad for a car is propaganda, while the intent to sell the car is an agenda.
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