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		pyre on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classi... I thought that brainwashing was a label applied to the technique used to convince someone. You can brainwash someone that holds strong convictions which are wrong to believe in the truth.

pessimizer on Sept 19, 2013 [–]

Brainwashing is a label applied to the mysterious techniques that communist foreigners and non-Christian religions use to convince someone.

Labels applied to the techniques used to convince someone are 'rhetoric,' and 'argumentation,' amongst others.

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