Why not embrace the term and change it's connotation? Normies see "conspiracy theory" as bad because the msm tells them so. Mel Gibson had a film by that name where the protagonist was vindicated. Same with Mulder and the Lone gunmen from the X-files. But that was the 90s - now they'd never portray conspiracy theorists as being right.
Don't, but people around you will use it. Good luck convincing them the term was invented by the CIA - they'll just laugh it off and say that's exactly what a conspiracy theorists would say.
The propaganda here is that they are using the pejorative term "conspiracy theorists" which was created to discredit dissenting discourse.
The intelligence agencies behind all the the messaging from the institutions in this meme are doing victory laps around us.
Why not embrace the term and change it's connotation? Normies see "conspiracy theory" as bad because the msm tells them so. Mel Gibson had a film by that name where the protagonist was vindicated. Same with Mulder and the Lone gunmen from the X-files. But that was the 90s - now they'd never portray conspiracy theorists as being right.
I don't have to use terms coined by and still used for government propaganda.
Don't, but people around you will use it. Good luck convincing them the term was invented by the CIA - they'll just laugh it off and say that's exactly what a conspiracy theorists would say.