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Gawker: This Viral Facebook Video About Mental Health Is Scientology Propaganda
https://whyweprotest.net/threads/cc...on-facebook-is-scientology-propaganda.125807/
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[video=youtube;Wv49RFo1ckQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv49RFo1ckQ[/video]
Has this magnificently corny PSA graced your Facebook newsfeed lately? Inspirational rock music. Dejected kids pulling stickers from their shirts, revealing words like "revolutionary" and "healer" underneath. A title card: "Stop psychiatric labeling of kids." You've got the Church of Scientology to thank.
As of today, the video — posted by an organization called the Citizens Commision for Human Rights on April 3 — has accrued 6,989,912 views on Facebook. Two weeks after its publication, it's still getting shared roughly once every minute. I haven't seen any of my friends post it, but a tipster who alerted us to the video's existence gave an emphatic "jesus GOD yes" when I emailed to ask whether it was being shared into her feed often. (It's blowing up on Facebook now, but technically it isn't new; the group uploaded an identical PSA to YouTube in 2010.)
So who is behind CCHR — a self-described "an international mental health watchdog" — and why are they so intent on informing you of the specter of "bogus mental disorders"? You won't find the word "Scientology" anywhere on CCHR's Facebook page, but it's right there in the "About" section of the organization's official website:
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Next time you see the video, feel free to let your friend know that they're doing unwitting PR work for an organization that used slave labor to build motorcycles for Tom Cruise. Or, you know, just mute them.
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HT - WWP: https://whyweprotest.net/threads/cc...on-facebook-is-scientology-propaganda.125807/
https://whyweprotest.net/threads/cc...on-facebook-is-scientology-propaganda.125807/
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[video=youtube;Wv49RFo1ckQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv49RFo1ckQ[/video]
Has this magnificently corny PSA graced your Facebook newsfeed lately? Inspirational rock music. Dejected kids pulling stickers from their shirts, revealing words like "revolutionary" and "healer" underneath. A title card: "Stop psychiatric labeling of kids." You've got the Church of Scientology to thank.
As of today, the video — posted by an organization called the Citizens Commision for Human Rights on April 3 — has accrued 6,989,912 views on Facebook. Two weeks after its publication, it's still getting shared roughly once every minute. I haven't seen any of my friends post it, but a tipster who alerted us to the video's existence gave an emphatic "jesus GOD yes" when I emailed to ask whether it was being shared into her feed often. (It's blowing up on Facebook now, but technically it isn't new; the group uploaded an identical PSA to YouTube in 2010.)
So who is behind CCHR — a self-described "an international mental health watchdog" — and why are they so intent on informing you of the specter of "bogus mental disorders"? You won't find the word "Scientology" anywhere on CCHR's Facebook page, but it's right there in the "About" section of the organization's official website:
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Next time you see the video, feel free to let your friend know that they're doing unwitting PR work for an organization that used slave labor to build motorcycles for Tom Cruise. Or, you know, just mute them.
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HT - WWP: https://whyweprotest.net/threads/cc...on-facebook-is-scientology-propaganda.125807/