People on the other side

What do we know about the calls "calculate the children of the security forces"

After the last performances of the opposition, a resident of the Moscow Region posted in his social networks the call to find the children of the security forces and deal with them, after which he was detained. Comments here are unnecessary: ​​no one in a civilized society believes that violence against loved ones of your political opponents or even persons committing crimes is a good idea. The terror, no matter what side it is directed and no matter what is justified, never ends with anything but oncoming terror.

A resident of the Moscow Region had no resources to fulfill its threats, as well as followers. This is a provocateur or just an unbalanced person whose point of view reflects only his own fears.

Nevertheless, propaganda hastened to present him as the leader of the opposition, behind which there are supposedly thousands of radicals.

And only a thin black line from ordinary policemen with batons separates a healthy and stable Russian society from this plague.

This is a typical example of manipulations that we have accustomed to in recent years thanks to Russian television, and most likely it would not be worth paying attention to it. If it were not part of the publication, as it were, an allegedly emanating from the “anonymous group of employees of law enforcement agencies”.

In this leaflet, with a large pathos of the widespread NTV, it is reported that punishment for activists and members of their families will be symmetrically harsh.

The authors are hinting: the opposition does not yet know what kind of scumbags I contacted.

Television gives this in the spirit that we have just a fair retribution of the hordes of unnamed radicals and that every reasonable person should be on the side of the Avengers-Siloviks. But the message is read in a completely different way: firstly, the anonymous security forces are trying to intimidate citizens and force them to abandon their rights, otherwise they threaten to brutally punish, regardless of the law. Secondly,

Unlike a resident of the Moscow Region, the authors of a letter with threats are not delayed, there is no criminal case against the anonymous security forces for the threats of reprisals against citizens.

Of course, we have two double standards and, in fact, inciting a civil conflict (we will not write “war”) by the NTV. We remember the classics: of course, all animals are equal, but some are still more equal than others.

With propaganda, everything is clear for a long time, so it is better to understand what to do to us. Those who are now provoking law enforcement officers to illegal actions against citizens hint that the cruelty in the dispersal of peaceful rallies is a “global practice”; It is beneficial that between the police, the Russian Guard and the citizens to be a clear split, so that they hate each other. When you have a clear identity built on hatred for others, the world is arranged simply and convincingly. There are wonderful we, representing the forces of good, and they are terrible, personifying all the evil of the world. It is easy to see how this picture of the world is beneficial to preserve the current Status Quo. Citizens go to peaceful rallies, which are submitted as an attempt on stability and prologue to the Maidan, and the police beat them because it is a criminal regime / last stronghold of order (emphasize the necessary).

The division into “we” and “they” does not end, because we can seriously assume that there are “others”, if we generally exclude “their” from among people. Therefore, police explain that they are not in front of them at all Russian citizens, but chaos seeders, spies and people who ruin the country. And citizens tend to see exclusively monsters and sadists in police uniforms. In both cases, opponents can be hated, but you definitely cannot talk to them.

The most terrible thing is that from the point of view of the authorities, it can happen during the peaceful protests is a refusal of the police to comply with illegal orders under the pressure of people's arguments. In the theory, one cannot exclude the opposite: the police have such words to convince people to disperse, because there are more important things to protect their voting rights. But this is not for sure.

So serious opposition to propaganda is now to refuse dehumanization. Stop seeing a mass in them and see people. Yes, to condemn those police officers who beat a person at a rally with sadistic pleasure, and demand a legal punishment for them. But do not divide, but try to talk, convince.

Now the police are coming home to representatives of the intelligentsia, for example, to the author’s friends who teach the logic and theory of argument at the university. For the district police officer, an honest conversation with such people about what is happening in the country, a large test. Young correspondents of the Novaya Police at rallies have a lot of difficult questions and see the embarrassment of the latter.

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