Bret Stephens, “Harris Needs a Closing Argument. Here’s One.” New York Times, October 15, 2024,
The ad of a young black woman wearing oversized red sunglasses appeared in so many ads as I was reading op-eds and other political articles as I followed rge campaign in the New York Times that I began to wonder if I was being targeted with that ad in order to produce a negative reaction that might lead to s vote for Trump.
The ad did produce a negative reaction. The young woman, if she was real, or AI generated image if she was not,hit a chord, reminding me of woke individuals I had seen on TV who struck me as having a pro-black and anti-white bias.
What struck me was the frequency with which I saw the same image and the perfect degree it seemed to be drawing an instant emotional reaction below the level of awareness.
Was this real? Did I accurately understand what was going on, how it seemed I was being manipulated?
Did others have this or a similar experience?