Virtue signaling is the most important thing in the world among leftists.
It's actually the key to making simple people trust you.
If you watch MSM broadcasts or leftist hate-pages on social media you'll notice a constant stream of two things:
- fluff pieces that make your heart feel all warm and cozy
- the faces and backstories of people who were harmed by "the crime of the day"
You can turn well-intentioned people into cultists just by massaging their limbic systems with a few elbows on pressure points followed by some happy endings, and the fluff stories are the key to gaining the trust required to get them access to those pressure points.
"Awwww, look at these swell bunch of guys. This is a national news broadcast where commercials cost tens of thousands of dollars per minute, yet they're taking the time to show us somebody helping ducklings to get over the curb... My heart is so full of love right now..."
The trust is gained by the fluff, then when a crisis moment comes, the leftist MSM members slather false narratives on it: "never let a good crisis go to waste".
Leftist cult-leaders know that our limbic systems are the key to forming our long-term memories, and that the elevated emotions of crisis moments are some of the main triggers that cause our limbic systems to forge those long-term memories.
And here's the most important thing... Assigning a "cause" to those crisis moments,
at the first instant that they are being implanted in our memories, goes a really long way towards forming our opinions.
That's why, whenever a guy named Abdul mohammed mohammed Abdul Al-mohammed yells "allahu akbar" before he kills a bunch of Jews with a van, the leftists scream "GUN CONTROL ISSUE!!!! GUN CONTROL ISSUE!!!! GUN CONTROL ISSUE!!!! It's still too early to say whether or not this was a terrorist attack! Anyone who says that this was a terrorist attack is a racist, and you need to yell that at them!!!!!!! GUN CONTROL ISSUE!!!!"
They know how important it is to tie in "GUN CONTROL!!!!!!!" with that crisis moment, and to completely disassociate it from islamic violence.
If people put the pieces together later, after the iron is no longer hot, it doesn't have the same impact. There's no weld.
And people will always relate to an emotional story with the same emotional connections that they felt when it was initially exposed to them.
The weirdest part of all this is how important pictures of faces and people's backstories are. There's a good reason why leftists don't want you to hear the names of the kids who were shot by the BLM police in their Seattle Autonomous Zone, they don't show their faces, and they don't want you to know if their teachers thought that they were gentle giants. Because it implants that story more firmly into the minds of their sheeple, and they don't want those kids in people's minds, they just want them quickly put into holes in the ground.
AJ+ (Al Jazeera) is a perfect example of a leftist hate page. Back when islamic state was the size of a large country, and they were burning women to death in cages, AJ+ would post some fluff pieces about fuzzy bunnies, followed by the highly detailed story of a perfectly innocent black woman with a pretty face and a name and a poignant backstory who was killed by white people in America one day in 1786, but they wouldn't even say one word about the genocide by "Daesh" in the ME. And AJ was constantly telling the story of a muslim girl in India that was raped and killed by 4 Hindu men at that time. They talked about her constantly for
months. If you followed AJ+ for a month you would honestly be left with the impression that there were fuzzy bunnies everywhere, there was a genocide against blacks in the US, muslim girls in India were being gang-raped and murdered all the time, while nothing was really happening in Levant.
And there's a reason why the MSM here all said "Isis" and then "Daesh" instead of islamic state... They didn't want the name "islamic state" to be associated with all of the islamic state burnings, hatred and slaughter. Their narrative says "Daesh is un-islamic".
Leftists have no idea the extent to which they are all being controlled. They are oblivious, and simple.
One last thing... the story on CNN of
"6 People Killed and 46 Injured in a Car Crash in Waukesha" was a masterclass in media manipulation. If that was a white guy running over muslims praying on the street it wouldn't have been called a "car crash", the faces and backstories of the victims would have been overwhelming, the fact that it was his second vehicle attack in 3 months wouldn't have been omitted, the man's ties to a conservative group like BLM wouldn't have been ignored, they would have called it terrorism, etc, etc, etc.