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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 05:49 PM Mar 2019

Spot The Difference



As Medhi Hasan (a genius BTW) said on MSNBC this Sunday...

‘A non-Muslim terrorist has to kill on average 7 people more than a Muslim terrorist to get equal coverage as a Muslim terrorist.
That’s a #mediafail.
I’m always reminded of that old viral tweet that terrorism is one of the only areas where white people do most of the work and get none of the credit.
The word terrorism is not used for people who are not Muslims - that’s the problem.
We’ve been conditioned to believe that a terrorist attack is only an attack carried out by a brown dude with a beard shouting in Arabic.
When of course the statistics show otherwise.
The ADL says that three-quarters of the terrorist attacks in the United States over the past decade were carried out by far-right white nationalist terrorists, a quarter by Muslims.
Can we say that the media coverage of terrorism in this country is 75 per cent white nationalist, 25 per cent Muslim? Of course not.’



This!

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Spot The Difference (Original Post) Soph0571 Mar 2019 OP
Dayum. underpants Mar 2019 #1
Pretty much sums it up BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #2
well, it's pretty subtle. is guessing ok? Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #3
K&R ck4829 Mar 2019 #4
Sad to say, we Australians should have kept Rupert uriel1972 Mar 2019 #5

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
2. Pretty much sums it up
Mon Mar 18, 2019, 06:04 PM
Mar 2019

and that is in England. It's even more egregious in the U.S. In fact at one time, it was common to only identify the race of black criminals where white criminals were never identified as "white". That's how many of us in the black community KNEW who committed a particular crime when no race was mentioned.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,348 posts)
3. well, it's pretty subtle. is guessing ok?
Tue Mar 19, 2019, 02:44 AM
Mar 2019

Hmmm. I'm going out on a limb...

ISIS MANIAC

vs.

Angelic Boy

?

Must be some more of that "fair and balanced" shit going around.

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