{"id":197030,"date":"2025-05-12T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=197030"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:25:43","slug":"the-deadly-victory-of-transgender-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/the-deadly-victory-of-transgender-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"The deadly victory of transgender propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you won’t see it, you can’t fight it<\/strong><\/p>\n

The impact of propaganda at its best \u2013 that is, at its most effective \u2013 depends on us not seeing it for what it is, mistaking it for \u201cnews\u201d or \u201centertainment,\u201d and\/or some other content that appears to have no covert intention. Thus disguised, propaganda works far more efficiently, and often for far longer, than when it comes at us as propaganda \u2013 as, say, in TV and radio spots, ad banners on the web, billboards, videos in taxicabs, or any other medium that bluntly sells a product or a candidate.<\/p>\n

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So bald a pitch \u2013 known, among the spooks, as \u201cwhite propaganda\u201d \u2013 tends to provoke resistance, as when a telemarketer calls, or a panhandler approaches. By contrast, winning propaganda \u2013 as Edward Bernays explains in his eponymous classic (1928) \u2013 neutralizes your suspicion by working its \u201cpersuasion\u201d into some comic or suspenseful narrative, or journalistic expos\u00e9, or (seeming) \u201cfad\u201d or \u201ccraze,\u201d so that such \u201cgray propaganda\u201d sneaks past your defenses, lodges in your consciousness without you knowing it, and stays there until you somehow learn the truth, and \u2013 crucially \u2013 accept it.<\/p>\n

Such truth can hurt, so that accepting it is often difficult \u2013 unless, of course, it tells you what you want to think is true. We have no trouble spotting propaganda from \u201cthe enemy,\u201d whoever that may be: propaganda that we disagree with, and therefore call it \u201cpropaganda\u201d as that word is commonly deployed, as a mere synonym for \u201clies.\u201d If, on the other hand, the enemy says something true, and (naturally) we want to think it’s false, our dismissing it as \u201cpropaganda\u201d in the pejorative sense is itself that very kind of propaganda, meant to have you thinking that true claims are false, and falsehoods true. (Not everyone who does this is aware of what s\/he’s doing, but speaks out of wishful thinking, tribalistic and defensive.) If, however, the enemy’s propaganda comes at us disguised as something else \u2013 something thrilling, beautiful or fun \u2013 we can absorb it just as easily as we often do with propaganda hidden in domestic news or entertainment. (Dr. Goebbels was especially adept at managing that sort of masquerade, such as the films of Leni Riefenstahl, and other spectacles with no explicit hints of pending war or genocide.)<\/p>\n

For some time \u2013 especially since the birth of \u201cthe coronavirus,\u201d although it started years before \u2013 we’ve been submerged in propaganda, our hearts and consciousness suffused with it, since it pervades all media, so that it’s largely inescapable and never stops. This is not the first time we’ve been thus assailed \u2013 sharp observers have been noting the ubiquity of advertising in particular since the late 19th century; and, in the Thirties, the permeation of our atmosphere with fascist, communist and New Deal propaganda, among others, prompted much uneasy commentary in the press, and inspired the founding of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis at Columbia, set up to teach the public how to spot such propaganda, and test its claims. (The Organisation for Propaganda Studies, on whose board I’m proud to sit, attempts to follow that example.) Although it’s been a problem since the rise of the commercial press, however, what’s pelting us nonstop today is vastly more sophisticated, and, due to the Internet, and virtual communication networks in particular, far more aggressive and contagious, so that it overwhelms us, and misleads us, more than ever in our history, politics and journalism having largely ceased to counter it, or even question it, since it’s now downright dangerous to tell the truth.<\/p>\n

Thus beset, most of us have trouble seeing through the guise whereby the propaganda infiltrates our consciousness, and conquers it, much as the Trojans couldn’t see the Greeks concealed in that big wooden horse. Some of us are quicker than others to catch on, while some never do; but if \u201ccovid\u201d has taught us anything, it’s that propaganda can fool even the very savviest among us, at least initially, and sometimes fatally.<\/p>\n

Vince Salandria, the heroically perceptive student of the JFK assassination (he knew from the start that the official story was absurd) as well as 9\/11, fell hard for the \u201ccoronavirus\u201d scare, wearing masks that barely allowed any air to pass, so that, in the summer heat of Philadelphia, he dropped dead while briskly walking his dog. And I myself have likewise fallen for deft propaganda lies. After (credulously) watching An Inconvenient Truth<\/em>, and a lot \u2013 too much \u2013 of \u201cDemocracy Now!<\/em>\u201d, it took me years to realize that the threat posed by man-made \u201cclimate change\u201d is just as bogus as \u201cthe virus,\u201d and that Al Gore and Amy Goodman were (and still are) propagandists serving elite interests, intent on our total deprivation. I also had to learn that vaccination has been wildly oversold, and that that \u201ccure\u201d is vastly worse than the disease \u2013 by design, in furtherance of our near-extinction. These examples of belated understanding teach the urgency of spotting propaganda, and then looking into it, to determine if its claims, or implications, are the truth, or partly true, or just another lie.<\/p>\n

Now let’s take another elite propaganda drive whose purpose is obscured by its disguise. This drive is one that I did not fall for at first; although, at first, I didn’t know it was a propaganda drive, but thought it just a \u201cnatural\u201d expression of egalitarian concern, although it seemed to me that there was something odd \u2013 some might say \u201cwarped\u201d \u2013 about it.<\/p>\n

I got my first snootful of this propaganda back in 2014 (the year of the CIA’s \u201cMaidan Revolution<\/em>,\u201d another propaganda coup disguised as something else), when the women’s prison drama Orange Is the New Black<\/em> was in its second season as a Netflix sensation, in part because of the voluptuous Laverne (born Roderick) Cox, who shot to sudden fame not so much for her acting, as for herself \u2013 <\/em>a real trans woman playing a trans woman (Sophia Burset, doing time for credit card fraud) and otherwise advocating non-stop for \u201ctrans rights\u201d: \u201cCox’s role in <\/em>Orange Is the New Black provides her a platform to speak on the rights of trans people<\/em>,\u201d notes Wikipedia, casting her as a sort of Rosa Parks: \u201cCox was the first transgender person to be nominated for a <\/em>Primetime Emmy Award,\u201d and then, in June of 2014, \u201cCox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of <\/em>Time magazine<\/em>,\u201d which \u2013 like all the media spotlighting her \u2013 treated her celebrity as comparable to the Montgomery bus boycott, or the march on Washington in 1963: THE TRANSGENDER TIPPING POINT: America’s next civil rights frontier<\/em>, read that cover:<\/p>\n

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Wikipedia goes on to add that Cox \u201cis the first transgender person to appear on the cover of a <\/em>Cosmopolitan magazine<\/em>,\u201d and \u201calso the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at <\/em>Madame Tussauds.\u201d We also learn that, in October of 2014, Cox furthered her campaign (or was used to further it) with Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word,<\/em> an hour-long documentary about herself and others like her, executive-produced by herself, and narrated by herself, and which premiered on both MTV<\/em> and Logo<\/em> (both owned by Paramount).The Wikipedia entry was, of course, a retrospective bio, written some years after my first views of Cox, primarily in Orange<\/em>, and then on the cover of Time,<\/em> and, subsequently, many other glossy magazines \u2013 a multitude of glamorous cover-shots that, back then, struck me as indicating merely that Laverne Cox was a simple fad among the liberal editors of all those magazines, of which the following are just a few:<\/p>\n

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In 2015, Cox’s one-trans-woman campaign to defend \u201cthe rights of trans people<\/em>\u201d was quietly enhanced by the limited release (only in New York and LA) of The Danish Girl<\/em> (2015), a sombre indie drama (very) loosely based on the marriage, in 1920’s Copenhagen, of the Danish painters Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander), husband and wife \u2013 until Einar, turned on by his experience posing for his wife in women’s clothes, finds that he’s a woman, too, albeit one trapped in his willowy male body. The film follows Einar’s transformation into \u201cLili,\u201d who roams the streets and haunts the social scene in drag, miserably confused and ever more intent on undergoing sex reassignment surgery, at the time a new and very risky process, which finally kills him.<\/p>\n

Although the film offers a subtle and ambiguous portrayal of Einar\/Lili’s peculiar (narcissistic) agony, and Gerda’s desperation to hold on to her husband, yet also to help him find herself, The Danish Girl<\/em> ends with an epilogue that bluntly tags it as \u201cmovement\u201d propaganda. Noting that Lili’s diaries served as the basis of Man Into Woman<\/em>, a memoir posthumously published in 1933, the producers end rather jarringly with this upbeat salute: \u201cHer bravery and pioneering spirit remain an inspiration for today’s transgender movement<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Back then, Cox’s glamorous ubiquity, and The Danish Girl<\/em>, struck me as indications that transgenderism was merely gaining traction as the latest, most exotic push for civil rights, just as Time<\/em> defined it. I felt the same about the large full-color photos of LGBT youth appearing on the windows of vacant stores, with no explanation, and, in the taxis, a video montage of such youth telling us how \u201cproud<\/em>\u201d they are. (\u201cWe are the future<\/em>,\u201d said one of them \u2013 an impossible claim, if you think about it.) Such displays were unsurprising in New York City under Democratic rule, Mayor Bill de Blasio serving as the \u201cwokest\u201d mayor in the Big Apple’s history.<\/p>\n

It was soon very clear, however, that all this hoo-ha over what Cox called \u201cthe T word<\/em>\u201d did not spring from mere hyper-liberal sentiment throughout the media, and in the city’s government, but evidenced a full-blown propaganda drive entailing far more than the rise of Laverne Cox, and, perhaps, The Danish Girl.<\/em><\/p>\n

In November of 2019 \u2013 ten minutes to midnight, one might say \u2013 Coca-Cola aired \u201cOrgullo<\/em>\u201d (\u201cPride<\/em>\u201d), an epic TV spot for Sprite in Argentina, featuring a series of older kin tenderly helping their teenaged kids (pre-surgically) \u201ctransition<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

From here on, the trans\/LGBT propaganda became bigger and bigger, so much so as nowadays the streets are frequently filled with \u201cPride\u201d marches, the schools are hosting \u201cqueer queens\u201d to teach small children about being trans, all movies and media are full of such \u201ccharacters\u201d and it is getting quite difficult for many people to discern what is really going on: an insidious and terrible act aimed at perverting the entire society, getting humanity to stray away from morality and God.<\/p>\n

Author: Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University<\/em><\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nMay 12, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

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