"Unable", "liar" and "parano", such is the robot portrait of the "conspiratorial" according to the anti-conspiracy campaign that the government has just launched.A website, a communication unit (GIS, government information service) and a minister (Najat Vallaud-Belkacem) are mobilized for this great cause.
The theme of the campaign would almost remind us of a famous advertisement for an orange juice: why are the "conspirators" mean?Because! ... As the government's website explains in the docly, in addition to its nonsense and to be based on "no evidence", the conspiracy theory "sows hatred against individuals or groups of individuals that it stigmatizes"(1): An expression deliciously borrowed from vocabulary usually used to talk about xenophobia.A fairer sentence would have been that "the independent information sites nourish legitimate anger towards certain circles of power", but the editor obviously could not resist this refined amalgam ...
We still read on the government's site that the conspirator does not make a difference "between authoritarian regime and democratic regime" (sic) (2).This is not a surprise since we saw that he was both stupid and nasty ...
The conspirator, with whom nothing can definitely be saved, also rejects everything that emanates from "public or scientific authorities", and especially of the latter which we understand that, inevitably, they prove him wrong.The conspirator prefers the "pseudo-science" and to copy and paste in infinity the nonsense invented by other conspirators.
The portrait is so absurd that government rhetoric sometimes takes its feet in the carpet.So it is explained to us that "conspiracy theory is looking for one or more secret organizers (...) who would have manipulated events in the shadows to serve their interests: rational explanation is never enough.So maneuvering to serve his interests would not be rational?
A compliment ... hidden
The heart of the new site is a decision -making infographic, which aims to help the good citizen to identify conspiracy theories.Alas, this is where the government betrays.The infographic affirms that a hypothesis which "[rests] on a conspiracy whose origins date back to several decades, even several centuries (and which has since been demonstrated)" is a conspiracy theory.The words are clear: the harm of the "conspiratorial" is, in particular, to be right too early.Alternative information sites therefore make the mistake of revealing state lies when they serve, rather than when they have stopped serving.Bigre, we are close to the compliment!
Restore confidence
Admittedly, the growing public distrust of the authorities is worrying.But who is the fault?In the conspirators or the government who has been lying for five years on the Syrian conflict?To conspirators or to the ruling party who leads a "supply policy", an explicit description of a right -wing policy, when he is called Socialist Party?Fighting distrust with a communication campaign is more or less for causing cancer with bouquets of flowers.
Letters of nobility
In ten years, alternative information sites have matured, faced an increasingly wide audience and acquired their letters of nobility.There are now hundreds of Etienne Chouard who say "no".The cold sweats of the government sound as a reward for the activists who animate these sites, and the intellectuals and scientists who are lively matter.Let's go on.
Yves Ducourneau, February 14, 2016
(1) « On te manipule.fr »
(2) « Déconstruire le conspirationnisme », par le SIG, 02/2015
