Why do you think boomers and normies bought “fiery but mostly peaceful” the first time around?

[AndSothisIsChristmas]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place- you can move it wherever it ought to be.

Even as an underdeveloped spermatozoa (an 18-year-old), it was blatantly obvious to me that the narrative reported in the mainstream news during the George Groid riots did not match the reality on the ground. CNN’s blathering about “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” and painting of rioters with the gentlest stroke was completely incompatible with the death, destruction of livelihood, blatant anti-white racism, and the entirety of CHAZ the riots seemed to embody, and this was the primary cause of my radicalization. But the vast majority of my peers and elders did not question anything they heard, even when shown evidence- I still know people who think Rittenhouse shot unarmed blacks, for instance. How did the media control the thoughts of these people so throughly in 2020, and why does that effect seem so much weaker during these current riots?

 

[gagabobo1997]

normies and boomers only watch MSM

 

[LeChampion1992]

The reason so many normies trust the TV is because the fact they're unwilling or unable to process the thought that there is a consensus that keeps things in check.

 

[Not A Bunny]

It's like every story that the media tells these days: people believe it because that's what they want to believe.

Watch those videos of people trawling campuses and catching students with quotes from politicians and immediately acting indignant that a Trump would dare say such a thing that was against what they believed...only to be told that really, the politician that they're on the side of said it. Watch how they react. Not a single one admits that they might need to do more research and maybe challenge their own preconceptions about who is really on their side.

If they wanted to leave their bubbles, they would.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Normies only watch MSM and it's easy to lie to people when they only watch one of four channels that are all saying the same shit.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Because they're insulated from the fiery but mostly peaceful protests and everything else liberals do up in their gated communities.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

What makes you think you aren't a normie, normalfag?

 

[Not 6 Foot]

Did they? Around here it was mostly the millennials and younger that bought into it. Even then they stopped as soon as a riot was planned for our main street and they saw what was really happening.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

The first word on any matter is often the last word.

That is why people jump to conclusions for their own side so often: it works.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

They didn't where I live.