Propaganda steers latent aggression toward selected social targets.

Evidence

During the last several years all the propaganda machinery of the country has been devoted to promoting anticommunist feeling in the sense of an irrational scare' and there are probably not many people, except followers of the party line’, who have been able to resist the incessant ideological pressure. … Propaganda, when directed to the antidemocratic potential in the people, determines to a large extent the choice of the social objects of psychological aggressiveness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1812

Categorization

• CANDY: Adorno essentially predicted the mechanism of the Red Scare — propaganda redirecting fixed aggression at a substitutable target — in a 1950 Berkeley study.
• XREF: connects to: Authoritarian aggression channels into conventional targets like minorities.; Authoritarians project aggression onto whichever target group is available — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 274

Broader Connections

• Authoritarians project aggression onto whichever target group is available #corroborates (0.92) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 274
• Authoritarian aggression channels into conventional targets like minorities. #exemplifies (0.90)