Propaganda
If someone sells you a car, they are a salesman. If they sell you a house, they are a realtor. Your food is delivered by a waitress. Why aren’t any of these people called pushers? Why does Bill Oreilly setting in the middle of the “no spin zone†insist that every drug deal is a violent crime? Either Bill has been watching way too much TV or he is spinning like a whirling dervish.
It’s all part of the process to demonize drugs, those who sell drugs and those who buy them. This is necessary in order to make what we do to them palatable to a society that is otherwise disinclined to be cruel. Like every war the drug war is no stranger to propaganda. Reds, gooks, japs, krouts and now pushers and users are dehumanized in preparation for their violation. We have steeled our minds against the horrible reality of what we are doing with ugly words for people who do not deserve what we do to them.
Rick Wolfe
