Editing Conspiracy theory

'''Conspiracy theory''' is a phrase used to dismiss narratives that are critical of the [[deep state]]. A person who espouses such theories is derided as a "conspiracy theorist" 

According to [[Aaron Good]], the phrase was seen as a reasonable thing during FDR's Progressive Era when public suspicion of economic elites was high, but during the 1960s the CIA (through [[Operation Mockingbird]] and other means) sought to use the phrase to dismiss people who are critical of the government and the economic elites behind them.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/oJWfKjifBo0?feature=share Palestine & American Exceptionalism With Susan Abulhawa & Aaron Good]</ref>

[[ProleWiki]] aligns itself with the CIA against these "conspiracy theories", by only using absurd examples of such theories, such as flat earth, etc.

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