Prop

PROPERGANDA
(Remember there is always 0 for no prop)
Section A
(Techniques of self deception)
1. Prejudice- prejudging people and acting on it.
2. Academic Detachment- Given 2 choices but did neither.
3. Drawing the Line- Trick you to think there are only 2 choices (limit your choices).
4. Not Drawing the Line- The person always wants more.
5. Conservatism, Radicalism, Modernism- People wants change, don’t want change, or don’t know if they want change (it works for all of them).
6. Rationalization- Making excuses.
7. Wishful Thinking- Thinking wishfully with much clue.
8. Tabloid Thinking- Prejudging people (not acting on it).
9. Causal Oversimplification- Apply a small thing to blame for a big thing.
10. Inconceivability- Impossible.
Section B
1. Emotional Terms- Use lots of describing words.
2. Metaphor and Simile- Using metaphors or similes.
3. Emphasis- When you emphasis something (loop hole).
4. Quotation Out of Context- Change someone’s word by taking a quote out of a context.
5. Abstract Terms- Doesn’t knows what you’re talking about.
6. Vagueness- Being vague.
7. Ambiguity- Other people don’t understand.
8. Shift of Meaning- Like number 4 but takes the whole thing and change the meaning.






Section C
(Techniques of Irrelevance)
1. Appearance- trying to convince you by the look of the thing (if you can picture it, it is probable it.)
2. Manner- has something to do with how someone acts.
3. Degrees + Titles- When it (the product) is used by famous people.
4. Number- When they use a number.
5. Status- When they use famous people to advertise.
6. Repetition- When they advertise by repeating the same thing a lot of times.
7. Slogans- Using sayings.
8. Technical Jargon- Using weird words you don’t know.
9. Sophistical Formulas- Using old sayings.




Section E
1. Concurrency- Saying something will always happen when something happens.
2. Post Hoc- Blaming something because something happened at the same time.
3. Selected Instances- Give one example of now it’s bad/good while there are many more “opposite examples”.
4. Hasty Generalization- A quick selected instances.
5. Faulty Analogy- Think something is good because of one thing.
6. Composition- If the Part is good the whole is not necessary good.
7. Division- If the whole is good the part is good.
8. Non Sequitur- No tactics but still prop.