cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/36992556
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem appeared in commercials aired on Mexican TV warning that anyone crossing the border illegally would be prosecuted and deported.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.semafor.com/article/04/22/2025/sheinbaum-bans-us-propaganda
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
We should have all done this about 9 years ago when it became apparent that it was being used to destabilise our democracies.
I hope they apply and enforce this equally on pro-chinese propoganda because it’s everywhere and I expect Mexico to be the perfect target right now.
It’s so funny to see people respond to Kristi Noem’s “Fuck you, you fucking <racial explicate>s” TV ads and think to themselves “It would be just as terrible if the Chinese started running ads where they were friendly and nice.”
The American idea of fairness is bananas. Literally getting mad because the Chinese are being too polite to brown people.
That would actually be terrible, yes. I remind you that the Chinese supported the Trump campaign during the election.
Chinese end goals are one people walking along a path of corpses. Any goodwill they show is purely transactional. There is no future of peace or prosperity so long as they can reach you.
I assume you’ve never met a Chinese person and have terrible knowledge of American history with Mexico and ethnic Mexican Americans just even in the last 100 years. We know what racism you’re supporting
the Chinese supported the Trump campaign
The Evil Foreigners Strike Again!
Chinese end goals are one people walking along a path of corpses.
How many genocides does the US have to be involved in before this reads like a punchline?
TIL that saying “if you come to our country illegally, we will arrest and deport you” is propaganda.
Edit: oops, I seem to have accidentally posted a reasonable thought that goes against the circle-jerk. I’ll try to be a bit less objective and a bit more filled with myopic, conformist, unquestioned rage next time I comment here.
Don’t worry, I still believe that disappearing people to El Salvador is a terrible thing, and it makes me really angry, so I think I still pass the tribalist purity test.
You’ll have to explain who you’re talking about, or how that’s relevant.
In any case, this may help. Let me rephrase: “TIL that if you’re American, buying an ad in Mexico saying ‘if you come to our country illegally, we will arrest and deport you’ is propaganda.”
Your comment looks troll-like, but I will bite.
One of the definitions of propaganda is “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.”
In this situation is “information used to promote a political cause”, the cause being anti-migration. You may say it is only for the “illegals” but currently in the US anything appears to be illegal (see the case of the german backpackers).
The expectation is for governments to work together for such spots, the fact that the US bypassed the Mexican government and contacted directly the mexican media companies is a huge red flag. It was not any American person, it was the US government.
It absolutely is… Basically anything spread to advance a cause or change behavior is technically propaganda. Generally, we use the term just when it’s done by or on behalf of a government, and especially when it’s pushing disinformation, but it’s all propoganda
The purpose of this is to push support, or at least normalization of, harsh treatment of Mexicans in the US or on the border. It’s also an intimidation and humiliation tactic
No matter how you slice it, this is blatant propaganda
The article that is linked (which is not much of an article) has translated the original source poorly. It’s being blocked because content on it was deemed discriminatory (not that it’s propaganda).
You don’t understand English? Where are you from?
