The diagram elements for patriotized morality:
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Definition of
patriotized morality
Unlike patriotized history,
patriotized morality
does not describe historical events. Instead, it expresses a preference for the US government or an identity with it.
It might say that people should support the US action in some other country, or that the US (or its current action there) is morally good. Or it might say it would be a good thing if the US had success in what it is trying to do there, or that it would be good if the US targets failed in what they are trying to do. Sometimes it identifies the US government with something that people already value, such as their loved ones or God.
Patriotized morality
is much less important than
patriotized history.
Getting people to support or identify with the US government (the job of
patriotized morality) is easy, once patriotized history has painted a false picture of what the US has been doing.
The six diagram elements for
patriotized morality
Like patriotized history, patriotized morality has six diagram elements, and within three of those diagram element categories, there is a small set of common items that are found in text after text. The same
patriotic core
components, the same
techniques,
and the same
patriotic changes
tend to be found over and over.
The delivery diagram elements for
patriotized morality
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All patriotic messages convey a component of the
patriotic core. In
patriotized morality, this is always the
core position: pro-US.
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The patriotic text delivers the
patriotic message.
For patriotized morality, the
patriotic message
is always a
message (of patriotized morality).
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Every patriotic
text
uses a
technique
to convey the
patriotic message. There is a small set of
techniques
that get used over and over in many different texts.
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As in all propaganda, the
text
in
patriotized morality
is written or spoken words, pictures, or other objects that people can see or hear.
The contrast diagram elements for
patriotized morality
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For patriotized morality, the
message (of patriotized morality)
is patriotic because it expresses support for the US or identification with the US.
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All patriotic messages are contrasted with an
unpatriotized element.
For
patriotized morality, the
unpatriotized element
is ordinary because it does not express support for the US, or because it does not identify something valued with the US government.
We call this the
unpatriotized position.
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For all propaganda, there is a
patriotic change
that is required to convert the
unpatriotized element
into the
patriotic message.
For patriotized morality, the
patriotic change is a change from nonsupport to support of the US.
We call this the
patriotic change (of morality).
There are just a few of these that are used in text after text.
On the left under the diagram are links to the six diagram elements. Each diagram element's link leads to a discussion of that diagram element category as it is found in patriotized morality. For the diagram element categories where there is a small set of common items that are found in many different texts, there is also a list of these common items. For each item in the list, there is a definition and excerpts from texts (mostly news articles) that exemplify it.
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patriotized morality
