This thread compares Darryl Cooper to a WWII expert who confuses people with confusing details and out-of-context facts to push a biased story. He makes us disoriented and then sells a false version of history, especially about WWII and Britain’s peace efforts. Be careful not to fall for these tricks.
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Darryl Cooper is to WWII what Norman Finklestein is to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Cooper buries people in historical minutia knowing the average person isn't equipped with a deep enough understanding of WWII to properly contextualize the historical points Cooper uses.
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The average persons understanding of WWII does not have a high enough resolution to historically locate and properly contextualize the points Cooper brings up, so they aren't properly equipped to determine the relevance, importance, or implications of the facts Cooper presents
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When someone can't integrate a set of facts into their understanding of something, they can become intellectually disoriented and begin looking for a way to make sense of the new facts.
This disorientation is what Cooper is trying to create with his deluge of minutia.
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Once he has a person disoriented, he then is able to sell them on a (bullshit) narrative that accounts for the selectively picked minutia that he has presented to them.
This is often a very effective maneuver, and made more effective by the behavior of our institutions...
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Cooper also leaves out important details. IE: The British PM at the time (Neville Chaimberlain) did everything he could to create peace with the Germans. Hitler eventually signed a paper "symbolic of the desire of our two countries never to go to war with one another again"
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Chamberlain's press secretary eventually asked Hitler for a public declaration of Friendship with Britain, and Hitler responded by denouncing Chaimberlains "governessy interference" and then by invading Poland.
This is the guy Cooper presents as wanting peace.
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Cooper is abusing the fact that regular people don't have encyclopedic knowledge of German history from 1915-1945 as a way to drag them into the weeds of historical minutia, disorient them, and sell them on a revisionist view of history.
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Cooper also uses gross distortions, and the blatantly takes things out of context and most people can't catch it because they don't have the research skills.
For example, look at the full context of the "poison gas" quote that Cooper presents:
(h/t @AndreasKoureas_ )
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So let's not allow ourselves to be pulled into a vortex of conspiracy theory and absurdity by people who are trying to disorient us by burying us in historical minutia and out of context quotes.
/fin
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Darryl Cooper is to WWII what Norman Finklestein is to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Cooper buries people in historical minutia knowing the average person isn't equipped with a deep enough understanding of WWII to properly contextualize the historical points Cooper uses.2/
The average persons understanding of WWII does not have a high enough resolution to historically locate and properly contextualize the points Cooper brings up, so they aren't properly equipped to determine the relevance, importance, or implications of the facts Cooper presents3/
When someone can't integrate a set of facts into their understanding of something, they can become intellectually disoriented and begin looking for a way to make sense of the new facts.
This disorientation is what Cooper is trying to create with his deluge of minutia.4/
Once he has a person disoriented, he then is able to sell them on a (bullshit) narrative that accounts for the selectively picked minutia that he has presented to them.
This is often a very effective maneuver, and made more effective by the behavior of our institutions...5/
Cooper also leaves out important details. IE: The British PM at the time (Neville Chaimberlain) did everything he could to create peace with the Germans. Hitler eventually signed a paper "symbolic of the desire of our two countries never to go to war with one another again"6/
Chamberlain's press secretary eventually asked Hitler for a public declaration of Friendship with Britain, and Hitler responded by denouncing Chaimberlains "governessy interference" and then by invading Poland.
This is the guy Cooper presents as wanting peace.7/
Cooper is abusing the fact that regular people don't have encyclopedic knowledge of German history from 1915-1945 as a way to drag them into the weeds of historical minutia, disorient them, and sell them on a revisionist view of history.8/
Cooper also uses gross distortions, and the blatantly takes things out of context and most people can't catch it because they don't have the research skills.
For example, look at the full context of the "poison gas" quote that Cooper presents:
(h/t @AndreasKoureas_ )9/
So let's not allow ourselves to be pulled into a vortex of conspiracy theory and absurdity by people who are trying to disorient us by burying us in historical minutia and out of context quotes.
/fin
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Darryl Cooper is to WWII what Norman Finklestein is to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Cooper buries people in historical minutia knowing the average person isn't equipped with a deep enough understanding of WWII to properly contextualize the historical points Cooper uses. ... 2/
The average persons understanding of WWII does not have a high enough resolution to historically locate and properly contextualize the points Cooper brings up, so they aren't properly equipped to determine the relevance, importance, or implications of the facts Cooper presents ... 3/
When someone can't integrate a set of facts into their understanding of something, they can become intellectually disoriented and begin looking for a way to make sense of the new facts.
This disorientation is what Cooper is trying to create with his deluge of minutia. ... 4/
Once he has a person disoriented, he then is able to sell them on a (bullshit) narrative that accounts for the selectively picked minutia that he has presented to them.
This is often a very effective maneuver, and made more effective by the behavior of our institutions... ... 5/
Cooper also leaves out important details. IE: The British PM at the time (Neville Chaimberlain) did everything he could to create peace with the Germans. Hitler eventually signed a paper "symbolic of the desire of our two countries never to go to war with one another again" ... 6/
Chamberlain's press secretary eventually asked Hitler for a public declaration of Friendship with Britain, and Hitler responded by denouncing Chaimberlains "governessy interference" and then by invading Poland.
This is the guy Cooper presents as wanting peace. ... 7/
Cooper is abusing the fact that regular people don't have encyclopedic knowledge of German history from 1915-1945 as a way to drag them into the weeds of historical minutia, disorient them, and sell them on a revisionist view of history. ... 8/
Cooper also uses gross distortions, and the blatantly takes things out of context and most people can't catch it because they don't have the research skills.
For example, look at the full context of the "poison gas" quote that Cooper presents:
(h/t @AndreasKoureas_ ) ... 9/
So let's not allow ourselves to be pulled into a vortex of conspiracy theory and absurdity by people who are trying to disorient us by burying us in historical minutia and out of context quotes.
/fin
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