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I saw a news report about this TV series, On the Road in America produced by Washington DC-based Layalina Productions, which shows a group of Arab students traveling across the US, meeting people, and discovering how nice everyone is. It purports to be bridging the gap between cultures and educating people about each other.
This sounds all lovely, even if the intention is positive (although we have evidence that other Arabic-language TV programming made in Washington is not). Regardless, I think it is CoIntelPro in effect. And as DonJHunt famously wrote, "If it's on TV, it's CoIntelPro."
IMO, this TV program (at least as covered in the news) is ignorant of (or deliberately avoids) the point. There are "nice," ordinary people everywhere -- but also everywhere is a tiny population at the top of the political and business power structures who turn populations against each other for their own, self-serving purposes. People need to look to their own local leaders and their media allies to see who it is that cynically foments hatred among ordinary people. IMO, the result of showing ordinary folks of differing cultures meeting each other a few at a time is mere distraction at best, and ignorance transmitted in the name of education at worst. I took a few minutes to write exactly this opinion to Layalina TV on their email form.
I saw a news report about this TV series, On the Road in America produced by Washington DC-based Layalina Productions, which shows a group of Arab students traveling across the US, meeting people, and discovering how nice everyone is. It purports to be bridging the gap between cultures and educating people about each other.
This sounds all lovely, even if the intention is positive (although we have evidence that other Arabic-language TV programming made in Washington is not). Regardless, I think it is CoIntelPro in effect. And as DonJHunt famously wrote, "If it's on TV, it's CoIntelPro."
IMO, this TV program (at least as covered in the news) is ignorant of (or deliberately avoids) the point. There are "nice," ordinary people everywhere -- but also everywhere is a tiny population at the top of the political and business power structures who turn populations against each other for their own, self-serving purposes. People need to look to their own local leaders and their media allies to see who it is that cynically foments hatred among ordinary people. IMO, the result of showing ordinary folks of differing cultures meeting each other a few at a time is mere distraction at best, and ignorance transmitted in the name of education at worst. I took a few minutes to write exactly this opinion to Layalina TV on their email form.