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My treats are not propaganda! (vegantheoryclub.org)

submitted 3 days ago by hamid@vegantheoryclub.org to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

stopped watching western television a long time ago, mostly watched asian television nowadays

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Didn't captain America literally become a fugitive of the state

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[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The cop dramas are often like modern fantasy to me. There's different classes and quests. It doesn't reflect real life.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

We're more aware of it now. Cop shows have always been about cops willing to break the rules, and they are made the heroes. This gave a whole generation an excuse to look at dirty cops as heroes doing what they needed to do

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I "love" when a show like Law and Order has a scene where the cops go to arrest somebody who is later proven to be innocent, and it's always at their workplace, or a busy family function, or a restaurant. The cops proceed to loudly accuse the person of the heinous crime right in front of their friends/family/neighbors/coworkers.

Then later on, the actual perp is arrested and no mention is made again of the innocent person they practically eviscerated in public or in front of their loved ones.

It's like these shows exist to subliminally train you to passively accept cops treating you like shit, even if you're innocent.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Everything is propaganda if it changes your view of something

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

Doesn't even need to change your mind.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

That's too much of a generalization. Propaganda is far more specific.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty much spot on, though that is the exact point of these kinds of shows.

It was part of a wave of shows launched to counter the media perception of incompetence in law enforcement/prosecution. They pushed a bunch of dangerously misleading (or even outright fake) claims such as the reliability and accuracy of forensic evidence which has been later used in actual court cases to imprison innocent people.

As always, Citations needed has done a brilliant job on this kind of stuff that's worth a listen.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Gmg1b4MSELodxHnHTQoAC