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Well it's only fair. After all, any time a black person murders a white person, the media also digs deep to see if this shows a larger problem of black people c

by MikeUt 6y ago

Well it's only fair. After all, any time a black person murders a white person, the media also digs deep to see if this shows a larger problem of black people committing hate crimes against others, and if our society systemically encourages hate against whites.

loopz 6y ago
I suppose this is irony, but introspection is problematic in minorities, perpetuating a bad situation. Ie. you'll find much worse racism in most foreign countries. They just don't acknowledge it yet. It's not on the radar. Doesn't mean hostile behaviour is ever ok.
yesco 6y ago
Hate to be that guy, but you could you list some examples of this? I genuinely do not recall any time this has happened so even just a single example would be fine (from a mainstream news outlet).
_-david-_ 6y ago
This is sarcasm right?
jariel 6y ago
"any time a black person murders a white person, the media also digs deep to see if this shows a larger problem" This is not true. Black-on-White and more so Black-on-Black crime is very common, and nobody ever bothers to put that in context. If they did that, we'd see it on the news every day. In fact - on the local news, you do see faces of 'criminals' presented, and they are very unfortunately disproportionately African American, but they don't really contextualize it, you just see a stream of faces. It's just not true to suggest that the intersectional narrative being pushed has an 'opposite side' that operates in the same manner. The 'opposite' to the intersectional narrative is more or less 'Race is not a factor' - or perhaps 'Race is never a factor' which isn't necessarily positive because that's not the case clearly. In reality - the attempt to cherry pick every event of possible racial characterization into a narrative is a 'fundamental flaw' of 'one side' of the narrative today. The challenge for people wanting to demonstrate racism - is that you need 'examples' and so they make them. If the press ever actually did start to look at real facts of incarceration, conviction, crimes by race - it would be a very hard discussion for them, because it would be entirely out of narrative for everyone's 'side'. It would be nice to have a source of news that did that.

by MikeUt 6y ago

loopz 6y ago

I suppose this is irony, but introspection is problematic in minorities, perpetuating a bad situation. Ie. you'll find much worse racism in most foreign countries. They just don't acknowledge it yet. It's not on the radar. Doesn't mean hostile behaviour is ever ok.

yesco 6y ago

Hate to be that guy, but you could you list some examples of this? I genuinely do not recall any time this has happened so even just a single example would be fine (from a mainstream news outlet).

_-david-_ 6y ago

This is sarcasm right?

jariel 6y ago

"any time a black person murders a white person, the media also digs deep to see if this shows a larger problem" This is not true. Black-on-White and more so Black-on-Black crime is very common, and nobody ever bothers to put that in context. If they did that, we'd see it on the news every day. In fact - on the local news, you do see faces of 'criminals' presented, and they are very unfortunately disproportionately African American, but they don't really contextualize it, you just see a stream of faces. It's just not true to suggest that the intersectional narrative being pushed has an 'opposite side' that operates in the same manner. The 'opposite' to the intersectional narrative is more or less 'Race is not a factor' - or perhaps 'Race is never a factor' which isn't necessarily positive because that's not the case clearly. In reality - the attempt to cherry pick every event of possible racial characterization into a narrative is a 'fundamental flaw' of 'one side' of the narrative today. The challenge for people wanting to demonstrate racism - is that you need 'examples' and so they make them. If the press ever actually did start to look at real facts of incarceration, conviction, crimes by race - it would be a very hard discussion for them, because it would be entirely out of narrative for everyone's 'side'. It would be nice to have a source of news that did that.