The Pizzagate Model — Disgust as Targeting Tool

The Pizzagate Troll, which basically managed to connect in the brains of very many people the idea of the connection between Hillary Clinton and disgust and child exploitation. And that it was attached to a pizza because these cultural psychologists believe the strong emotion of disgust was originally generated through food as a means of obviously stopping us from poisoning ourselves.

Source: Podcast Disinfolklore Universe Episode 2

The psychology of targeting through the disgust emotion. The Pizzagate example shows how cultural psychologists’ understanding of disgust (originally a food-safety mechanism) was weaponised to associate a political figure with revulsion.

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