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September 3, 2025

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English novelist, attributed, Jay p.186

How often do you buy the propagandist’s view that your opponent is totally wrong? Evil? Subhuman?

Demonizing the other is very much a growth industry these days, but it has always been an arrow in the quiver of xenophobes.


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