To not be deterred by its embarrassing failure to hold out its 2022 nationwide “Disinformation Governance Board” plan, the federal Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) has now resorted to funding a grassroots surrogate operation in Rhode Island.
A grant of greater than $700,000 was supplied by the DHS to the College of Rhode Island, which in flip funded a neighborhood group referred to as “Brave RI.” As an alternative of a top-down nationwide “governance board” technique, DHS seems to be shifting to a neighborhood, bottom-up strategy in in search of to carrying out its identical dishonest goal.
The Brave RI scheme is deceptively much less overt than was DHS in its mission to discourage and shut down free speech, however they’re not fooling anyone. In an embarrassing YouTube video of its own (and, clearly, with visions of Jan. 6 “insurrectionists” dancing of their head), its acknowledged mission is “to handle focused violence and home terrorism in Rhode Island.”
Neither exists in actuality. It’s purportedly attributable to speech they disagree with.
Underneath the guise of advancing “media literacy” and positioning themselves because the Ocean State’s “ministers of fact,” these ideologues within the mildew of failed disinformation czarina Nina “Mary Poppins” Jankowicz make no secret in regards to the spoonful of their very own disinformation they hope to drive down the throats of unsuspecting college students, academics, and others, through a deliberate marketing campaign over the following two years to teach residents easy methods to discern encoded “hate speech.” Get “curious not livid” they proclaim.
The Brave RI ideologues warning anybody who will hear to think about how “white nationalist ideology is expressed in methods that won’t at first be acknowledged as harmful”; to face the supposed actuality of “an unjust and unequal democracy” and the way America’s “political and financial system was designed for the privileged and prioritizing their energy”; and to see how all ranges of presidency “actively oppress people” in marginalized communities.
Might their political prejudices be any extra apparent? Truly, sure.
In one of many case studies by Brave RI’s Media Training Lab associate at URI, these purveyors of perceived fact assault an announcement by then-President Donald Trump in regards to the origins of COVID-19: “The US might be powerfully supporting these industries, like airways and others, which might be notably affected by the Chinese language virus. We might be stronger than ever earlier than.”
The lesson plan for this instance first makes the faulty assertion that “Trump was the president who ruled the U.S. for 3 years.” Solely three years?
The lesson plan goes on to state that as an alternative of making an attempt to uplift the nation, Trump “vividly pinned the blame on the Chinese language folks for the outbreak,” supposedly with none factual or scientific proof. It provides that, to “some misinformed folks, his opinion issues” in “attacking East and Southeast Asian communities” and that sure “victims have been overwhelmed up and even killed due to Trump’s affect.”
Nothing in that lesson plan is true or correct.
Regardless of Brave RI’s declare that an knowledgeable coalition of individuals below their tutelage can assist “depolarize” Rhode Island, their very own delusional doses of drugs are themselves false, inflammatory, and divisive. Are we merely to belief that the reality is barely what the media supremacists at Brave RI say it’s?
But, with a lot fanfare at a Feb. 28 Statehouse press convention, the Democratic secretary of state and a Republican state consultant have been readily available to provide credence to this sham initiative.
A part of the plan is that Brave RI, below the imprimatur of the state of Rhode Island, will quickly be invited to show their biased lesson plans in lecture rooms, instructor coaching classes, and different public boards throughout our state.
It’s one factor for presidency officers to make use of their bully pulpits to advocate for an initiative like this, as misguided as it could be. Nonetheless, it’s fairly one other factor when public funding is used to assist such ludicrous, deceitful, and doubtlessly partisan exercise. The Left has mastered the artwork of buying and turning taxpayer {dollars} towards the very People who pay these taxes, whereas additionally funding radical left-wing causes and organizations.
Had been it not for being paid with taxpayer {dollars} to unfold their very own disinformation, this “anti-disinformation” motion in America would wither on the vine and die. As an alternative, with monetary assist from federal, state, and native governmens, the Left will proceed to carry a determined benefit with regards to public problem advocacy, permitting it to disseminate its false propaganda below the guise of “fact” or “science.”
Brave RI’s mission is to show the general public “easy methods to analyze media messages that form public opinion and the way folks of all ages can be taught to identify disinformation and hoaxes.”
The irony is that Brave RI, funded by taxpayers, has already confirmed itself to be the supply of disinformation and hoaxes which might be about to be perpetrated on the folks of Rhode Island.
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