A halloween themed look at fear campaigning australia is using against refugees. Certainly shows that it is our feelings that they capitalise on rather than factual knowledge. Still, it is hard to persuade anyone of anything using real information when their vision is completely blurred by extreme feelings of fear and distrust. This is what my project is looking at changing though, the way we feel about refugees. I am not looking at bombarding the public with facts and figures, but rather drawing on a much stronger persuasion technique of emotive storytelling.
From the article:
"What hasn’t changed is the way authority can use fear to control. Much in the way the Christian Church used hell as a mechanism for manipulation, governments around the world use fear to justify policy. You needn’t look much further than my native Australia. Just recently, Prime Minister Julia Gillard tried again to justify her plans to re-establish the offshore processing of illegal immigrants in places like Nauru and Papua New Guinea. The move is a step backwards for the human rights of people who illegally come to Australia and has projected a black mark on our national brand. Gillard’s angle is that offshore processing will deter what the Australian media, so embarrassingly, insist on calling “boat people”."
The rest of the article from Monocolumn found here.
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