The question (and this applies to Wikipedia as well) is
whose explanation are you reading?
I'd throw you a quotation about the Power of Language, but I'm sure you can imagine it already. This site marks the end of 19th / 20th Century propaganda, which relies on an ignorant audience to swallow the lies without being able to fact-check them[1] (e.g. The Protocols of Zion or the "re-imagining" of Founder Father's texts to be anti-Semitic or (to be even) the notion that America was founded as respecting all of its citizens as equal - you'll want to read the 13th closely, you're all breaking the Law somehow, which is the hack they're going to use on you).
Modern Propaganda doesn't do this: it uses truth, but with hooks.[2]
The More You Know.
Footnotes, because I forget that not all readers share similar thought patterns:
[1] If this is true, what does that tell you about the content of most mainstream American News, and its consumers, and the future of these companies?
[2] Is my statement propaganda? Answer: of course it is, everything you consume online is.
I'd throw you a quotation about the Power of Language, but I'm sure you can imagine it already. This site marks the end of 19th / 20th Century propaganda, which relies on an ignorant audience to swallow the lies without being able to fact-check them[1] (e.g. The Protocols of Zion or the "re-imagining" of Founder Father's texts to be anti-Semitic or (to be even) the notion that America was founded as respecting all of its citizens as equal - you'll want to read the 13th closely, you're all breaking the Law somehow, which is the hack they're going to use on you).
Modern Propaganda doesn't do this: it uses truth, but with hooks.[2]
The More You Know.
Footnotes, because I forget that not all readers share similar thought patterns:
[1] If this is true, what does that tell you about the content of most mainstream American News, and its consumers, and the future of these companies? [2] Is my statement propaganda? Answer: of course it is, everything you consume online is.