Propaganda doesn’t totally rob people of agency free will (more accurate term), if it did this site wouldn’t exist. People do have the capacity to develop critical thinking, skepticism, and a basic curiosity about the world that allow them to develop some resistance to propaganda.

You can hold people accountable for failing to even attempt to do this.

        • FanonFan [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          8 months ago

          That’s fair, my prior response didn’t fully take into account the context of the discussion, sorry

          But I disagree, because the top comment (my interpretation of it at least) seems to be making the common vulgar determinist reduction of all choices and actions to simple results of material circumstances. I don’t think this is a particularly useful or accurate reduction, especially in the context of this post.

          If the comment is more pushing back on a general trend of liberal exceptionalism I don’t have as much of a problem. But the post itself isn’t an example of this exceptionalism, nor are value judgements as to a given person’s ability to critically engage with things.