[From Breitbart:] CBS crime drama The Good Fight tweeted an image on Friday from a recent episode, entitled, “The One Where Diane Joins the Resistance.” The imaged showed a character pointing to a list of “target words” that included the phrases “Assassinate President Trump” and “Eliminate Mar-a-Lago.” The tweet, which has since been deleted, sparked backlash among Twitter users, many of who reported CBS to the Secret Service.
This is called subliminal psychological programming — and it works.
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What exactly does subliminal programing do?
Reasonably good summary here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
The main reason it’s controversial is because it doesn’t work on everybody, and it tends to require a predilection for the action. In this case, the point is that if a person were of a mind to “assassinate President Trump” then this would give them some external justification for it.
I remember when Madison Avenue experimented with it in TV commercials in the 60s. A “suggestion” was viewed for one single 1/33-second interval, not enough to really notice. The companies’ numbers implied that it worked.
As pointed out in the wiki article above, it is illegal in the UK.
It is sometimes used in movies to heighten emotion at particular places (like flashing a single frame of a gutted head, for instance).