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MEDIA LITERACY MATTERS: I’m a political orphan, but live in a new swing state, so I’m getting hammered with ragebait from the lowest common denominator: political marketing. half a billion dollars has been spent thus far on Texas politics (Lord, help us) but this one took the cake. Brilliant, brash & ridiculous…but SO EFFECTIVE. This is part of the larger trend in culture and it’s why Media Literacy matters so much. Unfortunately, the voting population is likely the least media savvy as it changes in the era of AI.
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On this week of Enrangement Equals Engagement, my kids were sent pamphlets by the Texas Rank and LGBTQ Student Resource Guide. It was addressed to the students of the Rogers family, except this organization is actually not sending these pamphlets. It is a shell organization by a conservative group who is trying to get Texans so angry that they go to the voting booth. And this is a really creative pamphlet. It has information for kids if they wanna be emancipated from their parents so that they can get a sex change. It's brilliant. It's also sick and twisted. Politics is the place where people will stoop the lowest. And, of course, no one has media literacy. So if you go search right now for this, you'll see just a bunch of people who are really angry. They think this is real. And, it's effective. Media literacy is really important, especially as we move into the era of artificial intelligence. People will be able to make stuff like this without the help of a graphic design, without millions of dollars. Wow. Just wanna rank I've seen it all. You never know.
