Bartolome De Las Casas Destruction Of The Indies

Propaganda is used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. The use of artistry can be justified in visual and print propaganda depending on if the intentions are beneficial, the audience that it targets, and the outcome of using said propaganda. Propaganda can be used only if the intentions are good and the artistry is not harmful. A bad example of using propaganda in print is in Bartolome de Las Casas’s, Destruction of the Indies. Las Casas clearly exaggerates the number of native deaths to appeal to pathos. This is not okay, because he is exaggerating his findings. Therefore, his experiences and exposures should not be altered because he must provide accurate information to the prince. Las Casas states

Visual propaganda is most common during political debates. In Donald Trump’s first television ad for his run for office, his ad depicts his desire to build a wall at the southern border. This wall would disallow illegal immigration from Mexico. The video clip that Trump used was not the Mexican-American border, and was actually the small Spanish enclave on the mainland of Morocco: Melilla. This is Trump trying to trick the public to become scared of the idea of illegal immigration. This is a bad use of propaganda because it is for his personal gain and the outcome of showing this ad was not good. People researched the video clip of the Moroccan border and were enraged to find out it wasn’t the Mexican-American border. The people in Africa did not pertain to them, they lost that sense of relatedness if the border had actually been their own. A good example of visual propaganda is art by the children experiencing the Holocaust. These images are an innocent child’s account of what they witnessed in Nazi internment camps. One drawing depicts a dark camp enclosed by barbed wires, only the use of browns, white and black signify the mood of the art piece. Four people can be seen in black and white striped clothes with the Star of David above their hearts. In this artwork, the artists are Jewish children, they are describing what their eyes see in these