Just because "we" are from English-speaking countries doesn't mean "we" have the same "enemies", and the idea that people are assigned a list of enemies based on where they're born is insane. Being born on the same patch of dirt doesn't mean I have anything to do with you.

This is a remarkably uncharitable reading of the comment you replied to.

The person was pretty clearly talking in the past tense about WWII, not claiming that anyone is your enemy now.

Whether you like it or not, being born on a particular patch of dirt means that you are in fact part of the shared history of people born on that patch of dirt, which includes having had the Germans as enemies at one or two points in the past.

> The Anglophone world has negative connotations for the word 'propaganda' purely because our enemies used that word more than us.

Who is "our" & "us"? If it's not me, am I "the enemy"?

The Anglophone world is "our" and "us". Since our enemies "used" that word, you are only one if you also live in the past tense.

> Since our enemies "used" that word, you are only one if you also live in the past tense.

Kindof like the English speaking people of Japanese descent in the Western US circa 1940. Stripped of their property & sent to internment camps. I hope history does not repeat itself in present & future "propagation" efforts. But hope & reality are two different things.

I would love to meet the "we" or "us" that is doing the propaganda. To propagate what I think about their efforts of course.

Goebbels was literally the Minister of Propaganda lol