I'm quite irritated at the present. I'm cross, I'm vexed, I'm irked, I'm put out and fed up, some may even describe me as "in a huff".
Why?
These stupid election posters up everywhere.
Not all of them, just a few. Just the anti-abortion ones with the pictures of the fetus. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for freedom of speech, and I think that if people are annoyed about abortions, they have every right to put up pictures of fetuses and whine their hearts out.
However, these particular signs are what I would describe as propaganda. Anti-abortion propaganda. Propaganda is (as far as I know) biased, misleading or false information used to promote a particular view. The information on these posters is misleading at best, downright fraudulent and underhanded at worst.
My first issue? The signs all have a variant of the phrase "stop the killing of unborn babies". *Buzz* wrong. Thanks for playing. A baby is a baby when it is dragged screaming from a vagina. The dictionary defines a baby as a young child, recently born. Recently born. In other words, it's a baby when it's out of the womb. When it's shot out of a vagina-cannon, it's a baby. While it's in the goddamn womb, it's a goddamn fetus.
Second issue.... the second issue is the biggest problem for me. Stop abortions, the signs say. Stop killing babies. Accompanying these charming sentiments is an ultrasound picture of a "baby" at about 8-9 months development, thus implying that we are all running out to abort "babies" when we are 9 months pregnant. Newsflash, this is illegal. The latest anyone can get an abortion in SA is 23 weeks. Certainly not 9 months. Seeing the sign, you assume that the "babies" concerned are "babies" like the one on the sign. Not true. That's kinda as dishonest as telling someone that people abort actual babies, or like having a sign saying "STOP IMMIGRANTS" and coupling it with pictures of Muslim suicide bombers. Not honest. Not even close.
So anyway, now, hopefully, you'll be mad too. Hopefully you're over 18, and hopefully you'll be careful who you vote for.
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2 comments:
I agree. Those signs are propaganda. However, pretty much all election campaigning follows the same standards. I think it's all pathetic.
Mmm... I know most election stuff is like this, but I don't think I ever really cared, as bad as it sounds.
I think I only really got so angry about this because it's an issue I care about, and now I'm thinking about all of it. I suppose I just assume people will see through most of it, but now I'm thinking perhaps they don't... These signs have made me sad.
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