Racist media coverage of this war

[get these nets]

Yup. That one is egregious because it reinforces the whole 'Christian good Muslim bad' mindset.

There are less (unconsciously?) antagonistic analogies that news media uses too fwiw. I was loosely referring to #EndSARS and how the protests were framed as BLM-esque. As someone who appreciated what BLM's intentions were, it made #EndSARS less of an "over there" problem and put it in a context that I was able to rally behind. I feel like that's the main purpose of international reporting.

It's all done deliberately, based on how they want the audience to react to the story.

To take it back several decades, heads of film studios tried to counter the "othering" of Jews in the late 30s/early 40s. Easy to not care about "others". But as "Blonde hair, blue eyed" Jewish characters and actors are more visible, mainstream starts to view "them" as less different, less foreign. As the term "Judeo-Christian" is used more, the commonalities are stressed and they are seen as less different, less foreign.
"Maybe we should care about the stories of them dying in death camps."
Great counter campaign to the propaganda being promoted by Goebbels in Europe and the klan here.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

I understand the anger some of yall have in here. Since this is HL, I believe I can ask a clarifying question without being labeled a cac...

To play devil's advocate on some (read: not all) of the coverage, if the coverage of the unrest in Nigeria last year tried to cast Nigerians as being more affluent and more capitalistic/Americanized than other the rest of Africa, would yall view that as racist as well or journalist seeking out commonalities to conjure empathy/compassion among the audience?

Can yall honestly say yall are as compassionate about a white person dying in your neighborhood as a black person? I think it's human nature to unconsciously care more about those/things you can relate to. I wouldn't call it racist for black people to identify with a struggle in Africa more than a white person for example. Hypothetically, if Hands Across America was doing a donor drive to end war in Ethiopia and a black host said "they are black like us, let's give them a hand". Is that racist?

Yes because my parents didn’t raise me me to be a fukking psychopath and to let bullshyt like someone’s Melanin determine my level of empathy. That’s shyt White people do

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Even going back to WW2, Germany was attempting to do in Europe what the European powers were doing to the rest of the world. colonialism.

The Nazis were just late to the game. The “good guys” had already gobbled up territory in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

That’s why I say the only war black folks were morally obliged to participate in was the Civil War.


Some may say, what about WW2? Aside from the exposure Black soldiers from around the world got from fighting in WW2, there was no moral obligation for any black people to fight for the Allied powers. When you look at Jim Crow, Apartheid, Belgium holocaust in Africa and colonialism, it’s hard to imagine the Nazis would have been any worse in the exploitation of African people, than what the allied powers were already doing.

Blacks didn’t have a choice but to fight in WW2 let’s be real.

 

[Robbie3000]

Blacks didn’t have a choice but to fight in WW2 let’s be real.

What do you mean?

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

What do you mean?

You risk jail if you’re drafted and don’t go and how do you think the American Justice system would treat blacks who refused to fight?

 

[Macallik86]

Yes because my parents didn’t raise me me to be a fukking psychopath and to let bullshyt like someone’s Melanin determine my level of empathy. That’s shyt White people do

I can fully admit that if I turn on a boxing match and it's a black guy vs a white guy, if I don't have any additional info, I'm rooting for the black guy. Same thing goes for a US boxer vs a non-US boxer. It's not necessarily racist or nationalistic to root for those that share the same background as you. The same applies not only in competition but in death as well. I feel different if someone gets shot on my block versus someone who got shot 10 miles away. I feel different if Chadwick Boseman dies unexpectedly than if Bob Saget dies unexpectedly.

Not sure if you are being intentionally ironic in your post or you cannot see the clear conflict in insinuating that you don't see color has no bearing in the empathy you project, while following it up with a generalized statement about an entire race

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

I can fully admit that if I turn on a boxing match and it's a black guy vs a white guy, if I don't have any additional info, I'm rooting for the black guy. Same thing goes for a US boxer vs a non-US boxer. It's not necessarily racist or nationalistic to root for those that share the same background as you. The same applies not only in competition but in death as well. I feel different if someone gets shot on my block versus someone who got shot 10 miles away. I feel different if Chadwick Boseman dies unexpectedly than if Bob Saget dies unexpectedly.

Not sure if you are being intentionally ironic in your post or you cannot see the clear conflict in insinuating that you don't see color has no bearing in the empathy you project, while following it up with a generalized statement about an entire race

You started with the generalizations and projections. “Some” white people do that. Is that better? Dont project your sociopathic beliefs on to me or anyone else just because we share the same skin color my guy. I never said I don’t “see color” I just said that a person’s skin color shouldn’t determine if you feel sympathy. That’s makes no god damn sense.

Also of course a black American would hold certain amounts of contempt when it comes to empathy or lack there of that white Americans have shown time and time again they don’t have for us. That’s learned experience it doesn’t mean I have to emulate those white Americans. I have no desire to be a white man, quite a few of you seem eager to act the way the worst of them do tho. I’m a proud black man and I will not be copying characteristics that the worst of white society tend to have

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Also I’m tired of right wingers on this site running in and derailing threads just because they agree with this shyt

 

[Macallik86]

You started with the generalizations and projections. “Some” white people do that. Is that better? Dont project your sociopathic beliefs on to me or anyone else just because we share the same skin color my guy. I never said I don’t “see color” I just said that a person’s skin color shouldn’t determine if you feel sympathy. That’s makes no god damn sense.

It's not sociopathic for black people to feel different about a war in Africa (read: inevitable death) or for white people to feel differently about a war in Europe. I didn't say I didn't feel empathy. My level of empathy is at base levels, and the more I identify with the party, the more heightened my empathy. I feel more empathy towards a black person, my age, who I know, who was innocent. That doesn't make me racist/closed-minded/whatever other ism you want to call it towards black people who aren't my age, who I don't know, who aren't innocent.

Also of course a black American would hold certain amounts of contempt when it comes to empathy or lack there of that white Americans have shown time and time again they don’t have for us. That’s learned experience it doesn’t mean I have to emulate those white Americans. I have no desire to be a white man, quite a few of you seem eager to act the way the worst of them do tho. I’m a proud black man and I will not be copying characteristics that the worst of white society tend to have

Lol @ insinuating I'm acting like a racist white man for calling you out for using generalizations around race. All of my posts in this thread have been about not throwing stones because all of our houses are glass. I FW you as a poster but you are projecting intent that is not in my message.

 

[get these nets]

@Macallik86

Members of the media are just doing explicitly what the white press & their coverage decisions have done implicitly for decades now. Attach significance to the lives and deaths of certain people over others.
If it weren't for members of different backgrounds covering and updating conflicts in their parents' home countries, many of us would hardly be aware of them. Mainstream media surely doesn't devote time and space to them.
Those who are surprised by the reporters openly conveying the slant seems to have been deluded. Seem surprised by this "reveal". Sounding like Snoop at the Source Awards.
"Electronic media ain't got no love for Black people? Y'all don't love us? Wait, y'all don't love us!!??"

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

It's not sociopathic for black people to feel different about a war in Africa (read: inevitable death) or for white people to feel differently about a war in Europe. I didn't say I didn't feel empathy. My level of empathy is at base levels, and the more I identify with the party, the more heightened my empathy. I feel more empathy towards a black person, my age, who I know, who was innocent. That doesn't make me racist/closed-minded/whatever other ism you want to call it towards black people who aren't my age, who I don't know, who aren't innocent.


Lol @ insinuating I'm acting like a racist white man for calling you out for using generalizations around race. All of my posts in this thread have been about not throwing stones because all of our houses are glass. I FW you as a poster but you are projecting intent that is not in my message.

If projecting isn't your intent then that's my bad and I apologize. I'm use to dealing with all the shytty bad faith actors in TLR

 

[NZA]

whether sociopathic or natural or whatever, white people dominate the media we consume, the economy we are trapped in, and the police/military that we either serve in or are attacked by. this has direct and indirect impact on our lives. we are all subject to the whims of white people, so their feelings and triggers being pulled by emotional media is a problem for us in a way that black psychological triggers are not.

 

[mc_brew]

Us having compassion is what separates us from being genocidal monsters like them. It’s not a negative characteristic

you're going to lecture me about having compassion for people that you describe as below .. . . ...?

I’ve long said whites would burn the planet before they’ll ever accept equality. They’d see us all dead in nuclear fire before being told they’re equal to a man with darker skin

why would i have compassion for people that are like what you just described....?

 

[Voice of Reason]

Cacs are super defensive about this on Washington Post

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

you're going to lecture me about having compassion for people that you describe as below .. . . ...?


why would i have compassion for people that are like what you just described....?

I’m not lecturing but if read my other posts I definitely addressed having contempt towards white AMERICANS. Ain’t no one from Ukraine ever oppressed me dude. I also didn’t tell anyone they needed to have compassion I thought it was dumb to project feelings of lack empathy on others because you or someone else felt that way. I simply said I’m not going to be like those around us