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(Truth), Racism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - increasing polarising views
    - - Under democracy, Functions as a clarifying force between the people who have power, and the institutions that run society - a way of keeping our institutions and markets in check with our societal moral and legal codes
      - the sanctity of our media in the west is corrupted by its privatisation
        
        nationalised media gives the government far too much power and control - ww2 nazi germany, stalins communism and current china has taught us the important lesson of freeing the media
        
        news outlets should be overall balanced in their political backing. However, the deep state, or murdoch media are monopolising on the media market and manipulating the readers by microdosing with right leaning politics
        
        Power of money means that our media care more about clicks and revenue than telling the truth - media of click-baiting titles, exaggerated truths, and disproportional news reporting where local disasters are trumped by actual reporting of the aspects that have more pressing impacts.
        
        Perhaps it is not the news stations themselves, although they are extremely predatory to the human drive for drama and gossip
        
        perhaps not just about the sensationalisation by the media, but also, encumbered by the gargantuan amounts of information, strive for a writing modality focused on efficiency and indelicacy. With a population that is increasingly skimming and scanning information, searching for emotional hot buttons, our media companies slave themselves to the audience's consumptive expectations, obscuring the nuance and authenticity of effective media coverage. Can we really blame the tendency for occasionally obscuring reality by The Guardian, ABC news or the Sydney morning herald by simplifying the content, spicing up the banality of reports, and incorporating some emotional tones if it means survival within a world that monopolises on attention?
      - Historically, media has been manipulated to justify oppressive systems and ideologies
    - - fake news
  - - - words and speech can have tangible impacts on the wellbeing of individuals
        
        pronouns and certain words hold serious assumptions that can devalue or delegitimise the existence of minority groups (transgender)
        
        The Kanye west story shows how public anti-semitism by celebrities can lead to neo-nazis actually harming jews, or even kids in highschool making fun of jews
        
        the infection of misinformation during COVID - created political and social mayhem, harm by people denying vaccines, and triggering public protests that become the breeding grounds for further COVID dissemination
      - suppressing speech is authoritarian
        
        in a politically and socially advancing/evolving society, what is considered sensitive and touchy is in constant flux
        
        language and speech as individual freedoms - individual expression - should the view points or emotions of other people be able to suppress what people should be able to talk about and think about
        
        who dictates the speech? Government and institutions? sounds like fascism!
      - people form ideas themselves anyways - shouldnt we have public discourse to allow a platform for harmful ideas to be picked apart and displayed for its moral/ideological/conceptual bankruptcy?
        
        Without public discourse, harmful ideas can foster and grow within their own communities