Debauchery and promiscuity
I am writing in response to the Oct. 30 My Turn column [“United Police State of America“] with its eye-grabbing headline invoking fear that we now live in a police state. Yet, most of the column is devoted to describing college campuses, in particular UMass Amherst, as a den of debauchery and promiscuity and portrays students as drunken sex crazed fools. The writer is clearly well versed in propagandistic techniques. Read it again, this time as a critical thinker, and the true intent becomes clear. It starts with fear, then induces guilt and shame by portraying students as ignorant hedonists. But wait, the writer has a solution for the students to redeem themselves, become revolutionaries, by all means necessary, overthrow the government. And what would replace our current form of democratic government? The writer does not answer that question because then the writers’ true intent would be exposed, no longer hidden with propagandistic nonsense. Readers use your critical thinking skills.
Judith Schiavone
Greenfield