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It can be true and racist at the same time. If you never care about rapes except when it’s a dark skinned perpetrator in a white dominated country, then you ar
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
It can be true and racist at the same time.
If you never care about rapes except when it’s a dark skinned perpetrator in a white dominated country, then you are both racist and correct that that rape amongst refugees is an important issue.
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoI think you're setting up a strawman there. What he's saying is that media organizations are intentionally ignoring issues that would stand out by themselves, but choose not to cover them because of certain characteristics of the offenders. This leads to extremism as people who rely on those sources for news coverage end up completely misinformed about the world and find people discussing matters to be doing so out of some form of ism and 'fake news' rather than because it may be an increasingly serious problem. And it also fuels extremism on the other end as they also see the lack of reporting as 'fake news' and it fuels questions about the motives involved in not covering these issues. In my opinion, this quite rapid shift from the news trying to inform people (though of course there some lens of bias) to the news quite overtly trying to control people's actions is probably playing a major role in the rapid and, arguably deserved, deteriorating trust in the media. But that destruction of trust from the sources with the resources to carry out impartial reporting is doing nobody any good.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoYou think there are no real people who only care about rape when it’s interracial? That is what straw man means. You think I described a man who doesn’t exist?
- factsaresacred 8y agoI'll take this one: when you open your doors to people fleeing war and part of that population turn out to be over-represented in sexual assault crimes at a rate 4 times that of natives, this anomaly warrants investigation and often outrage. Why? Well if it's not obvious, your society has been made more dangerous due to policies you had no say in, and when you voiced concern that something like this might occur you were called the very epithet you just used - "racist". Hence why people 'care'. I mean do we not remember the mass sexual assault in Cologne? Or the same in Sweden's summer festivals? This is not normal and demands attention.
- fareesh 8y agoNo, it's just true. You can take a fact and use it to support a larger racist worldview composed of other facts, many of which may be false, contributing to a poorly reasoned out illogical perspective, or one that is lacking key details. Or you can simply take that fact and look at it in isolation, or in combination with true statements, and all the necessary key details, and form a conclusion that does not involve bigotry. What you are talking about is what people take away from the story. If the media is trying to control what people take away from the story, by not publishing it, because it could potentially help racists further ratify an already flawed worldview, then that is actually having the opposite effect right now, and it is a poor, unethical strategy. The media should report the facts, and should report on important issues with a fair amount of coverage, the volume of which is unaffected by agenda.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoHow about this: it’s both true, and with the addition of other information about rapes the individual doesn’t notice, is evidence of their racism?