How the Media Loves Racism
August 14th, 2010 at 7:03 pm by CrankyMuch has been said about the “dialogue” on race. Unfortunately, there is only one media response to it and it hasn’t changed since I’ve been old enough to watch the evening news sometime in nineteen-seventy-blady-blah-blah.
Once upon a time racism was doing racist things. How naive we were!
Of course, as the Civil Rights movement devolved into a growth industry, the definition of racism grew a bit. Ethnic studies helped us, and especially our friends in the news rooms, to understand that racism isn’t really about doing anything actually racist. You see, it’s institutional racism. Which means you are by default an oppressor.
Isn’t a reduction in school lunch programs de facto racism, Mr. Reagan?
The MSM isn’t doing itself any favors flaunting its sense of moral superiority over the dolts on the other side of the screen.
The ever growing circle of what defines racism is, in my humble opinion, part of the reason so many people are tuning out the collective wisdom of Katie, Diane and Charlie. Who wants to be sitting there after dinner and feeling like they are racists because they insensitively use racist code words like “fiscal discipline” and “elitist” or have the nerve to call a corrupt politician corrupt – even if that pol happens to be black.
You are all bad people. And that’s a page out of Katie’s notebook! TTFN!
With the Daily Show’s masterful demolition of the race card, maybe there can be a fair “dialogue” on race. Hahaha, just kidding there. Al Sharpton is still breathing!
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UPDATE: Exhibit A
As an aside, Juan Williams is my favorite NPR personality and that’s in no small part because he appears on FOX. The non-shouting match debates hosted by Chris Wallace and others represent political debate at its best.
August 14th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
If Eric Holder and other folks really want a dialogue on race and racism in America, then it’s time to hear about the racism that exists between Chinese and Japanese in America, between African Americans and Jews, between Muslims and Jews, between the numerous Asian groups who hate or, at least, dislike each other (Hmong, Laotians, etc.) . . . I can keep going. You should get the point by now. Does Eric Holder and his minions (no allusion to the Disney film Despicable Me).
Note that I included a couple of religious groups. I did because the race baiters don’t seem to understand there is a difference between nationalist differences and religionist differences. But, I figure, what the hell. Let’s just throw ‘em all into the pot, stir it and let it stink ‘em all up! Maybe we’ll find a solution.
No, maybe not. Let’s just forget all this race crap and see if we can fix the economy and get rid of ‘bammycare and ‘bammy with it. There are a few other items, but I’ll leave those for another day.
August 15th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Couldn’t agree more RW.
August 15th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Greetings:
Several years ago, on one of my internet safaris, I came across the US Department of Justice’s web site. In looking over the murder statistics, I discovered that a white person had a 3-4 times the probability of being murdered by a black person than a black person had of being murdered by a white person. This was a straight murder to murder comparison, unadjusted for the disparity in the size of the groups in the overall population.
Since that time, I have seen this observation mentioned just one time in the mainstream media and that was by Michael Barone in US News & World Report.
It has long been my opinion that to be a liberal is an indicator that one has missed out on two important fairy tales. The first would be Chicken Little which taught that just because something effects us negatively it’s not the end of the world. The second would be The Princess and the Pea which taught that if the problem cannot be ameliorated by many levels of efforts, the problem may be in your head.
August 28th, 2010 at 12:59 am
Here we are at the fifth anniversary of Katrina and the punditry still wags its soiled finger at us about New Orleans. No word on the rebirth of the Mississippi coast (not conforming to the template)but how racism has prevented the Lower 9th from being rebuilt. Funny, I remember 1974 and there was no 5th anniversary comefest over Camille…