Framing Trump’s Family Separation Policy
Framing Trump’s Family Separation Policy
Framing Trump’s Family Separation Policy
With today’s GOP it would be exhausting to counter every lie with the truth. Lying, conspiracy theories, propaganda, gaslighting and other forms of manipulation are age old tricks used to keep citizens out of the decision making process and the GOP embraced these methods well before Trump. Though at some level lies and propaganda must…
Learning to communicate effectively means not only learning new ways to communicate, but unlearning bad habits that hurt our messaging and strengthen our opponent’s. In this Word Watch we look at words we should and shouldn’t use about the Republican President and Republicans in Congress. We should include as often as possible the word “Republican”…
In recent months School Boards across the country have been and continue to be stormed by people who are afraid of two things: mask mandates and Critical Race Theory. The controversy surrounding both of these subjects – one around public health, one around a body of legal scholarship – have been manufactured by people who want one thing: to keep our nation divided.
Here is an excellent lesson in using the Stop portion of Stop, Drop and Roll: to identify what is being said, what frames our opponent is using, and, importantly, what the real issue is. After four hundred years since our nation’s original sin of slavery, the forces aligned to perpetuate racism have opened a new…