I too had wanted to embrace the idea of a race-indifferent society. But given that our country actually had enough seething racism that people voted for a political agenda of severely harming themselves as long as "those people" would get hurt more, I'd say that the media's traditional policy of trying to mitigate those animalistic urges has now been vindicated as being quite noble.
Yeah I think I both overestimated how "stupid" the establishment was 10y+ ago and underestimated how many that are actually susceptible to tribal incitement.
Yep. I also attribute it to getting older and more conservative. (actually conservative, not this revanchist destructionism cloaking itself in the label "conservative").
At least that article's subtitle, where it says "Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems."
A click-here-and-get-angry story, about the secrets the "other side's" media is keeping from you, sure sounds like it fits the rap sheet.
There is a different reason also: https://freebeacon.com/media/yes-the-media-bury-the-race-of-...
I too had wanted to embrace the idea of a race-indifferent society. But given that our country actually had enough seething racism that people voted for a political agenda of severely harming themselves as long as "those people" would get hurt more, I'd say that the media's traditional policy of trying to mitigate those animalistic urges has now been vindicated as being quite noble.
> the media's traditional policy of trying to mitigate those animalistic urges
As the article shows, they only mitigate [1] them for whites, and encourage them among everyone else.
[1] What a nice word for deception!
Yeah I think I both overestimated how "stupid" the establishment was 10y+ ago and underestimated how many that are actually susceptible to tribal incitement.
Yep. I also attribute it to getting older and more conservative. (actually conservative, not this revanchist destructionism cloaking itself in the label "conservative").
It is an irritating realisation that the ones I though were naive, weren't, but I was for thinking they were naive.
Maybe re-read the Atlantic article?
At least that article's subtitle, where it says "Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems."
A click-here-and-get-angry story, about the secrets the "other side's" media is keeping from you, sure sounds like it fits the rap sheet.
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