Chautauqua Institute, August 2005

MICHAEL I. NIMAN: WAR PROPAGANDA AND THE LANGUAGE OF FASCISM “If you look at most of the rhetoric about the war, it’s really an appeal to emotions, not reason," Prof. Niman tells his Chautauqua audience. "Because if we operated with reason, if we’re thinking about reason, then suddenly people have memory. ‘Wait a second,’ right? This is about weapons of mass destruction, about an immediate threat to the United States, had nothing to do with liberating Iraq…It’s all an appeal to emotion. This is the language of fascism. Language that appeals to our emotions, as opposed to appealing to our reason…Good propagandists attach their message to our values. We value freedom, so this becomes Operation Iraqi Freedom…/ Our media is censored. Is the government censoring it? No. It’s self-censorship.”(Prof Niman, Buffalo State College, spoke at Chautauqua Institution’s Hall of Philosophy Aug. 16, 2005. Event sponsor: the Chautauqua Society for Peace and Social Justice. 60 min.)

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