How the tabloids whip up division

[BillyStubbsTears]

Fascinating little example here.

If you've got 10mins, just have a look at this Twitter thread.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1261190335620886529

[Copps is Magic]

Lost for words. I don't read the sun of course, but reading that it is far worse than I could ever have expected.

[BillyStubbsTears]

You get an insight into where some of the attitudes on here come from.

It is utterly repulsive isn't it? Privileged upper middle class Kitsons poisoning minds for political purpose.

[Not Now Kato]

From the tweets....
 

Consider The Sun’s readership - working class, non-graduate now facing economic squeeze of COVID & Brexit.

I think a better description of 'The Sun's readership' is brain dead poorly educated people who are happy to believe any lie they read without question!
 
What has gone so wrong with this country?  How has education failed so many so badly?

[BillyStubbsTears]

The brilliant thing that The Sun does is to guide the (understandable) anger of the working class to the target that The Sun's owner wants to hit.

See, The Sun's owner and managers actually ARE The Elite. Murdoch, a tax-dodging billionaire. Newton-Dunn, the Political Editor - educated at £12k per term Marlborough College. Utley herself from a superbly well-connected upper middle class family.

These people are the very breathing embodiment of The Elite.

But they don't want the working class turning its ire on them. Because then they might elect a Govt that takes The Elite on.

So instead, the build up this Internationalist, young, socially-liberal generation as the one for the old working class to get upset about. And they call THEM The Elite.

And it is so f**king obvious, but you see it working on folk like Selby in here every day.

[foxbat]

these people must p1ss themselves when they see how easy it is to manipulate the british public.

[BigH]

Tabloids are past masters at creating 'straw men' around which to foment alleged issues (or 'a load of old bo**ocks' to you and I).

Trump's also a master. Look at what he's trying to do with 'Obamagate'. The 'it's terrible, it really is, huge damage to America, blah, blah, blah' but doesn't actually say what 'it' is or refer to any specific action or activity, because there is none. None. Whatsoever.

But it builds on peoples prejudices and is intended to foment anti-opinion.

It's an utterly scurrilous practice, straight out of the gutter, but commonplace in politics.