Houthi Min. Of Health: COVID-19 Is American-Led, Global Conspiracy To Finish Off Middle, Low Classes

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[–]wary_observer 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is an old tactic. Allow truth to be spoken by some wacky fringe or "crazy extremist" figure who most people will not find likable or trustworthy. Repeat ad nauseam. Honest and accurate descriptions of situations or phenomena then become associated in the public mind with "denialism", anti-social tendencies, religious fanaticism and so on. Instead of investigating and evaluating the claims, the public dismiss truth as nonsense, because they don't like the messenger, and are too weak-minded and dishonest to accept and process difficult facts.

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes this is a common tactic but I don't think it applies here. In this case the Houthis are simply an enemy of the globalists, so they have nothing to lose by speaking the truth. And this video isn't exactly being promoted, so it isn't being used tactically.

[–]wary_observer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fair point. Anyway it seems the media's preferred boogeyman is now White supremacists, not Muslim fanatics. So I would expect them at some point to conflate white nationalist and/or rightist movements with pandemic-denial and anti-lockdown attitudes. That is, if they intend to continue promoting the pandemic business.