This is the natural trajectory of decades of news media whitewashing politicians' openly racist comments as "controversial" and ignoring their thinly veiled dog whistles altogether
POC were always calling those things out and getting shut down for being "alarmist" or "divisive," and now here we are
POC were always calling those things out and getting shut down for being "alarmist" or "divisive," and now here we are
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Matt Novak
I can’t get over the fact that two separate people did Nazi salutes at CPAC and it’s so normalized at this point that it’s barely even notable on TV news. In any halfway normal era that shit would warrant wall-to-wall coverage.
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It was only months ago that we saw a sea of "Mass Deportation Now" signs at the RNC, and I don't remember a single news outlet accurately identifying that as an openly white supremacist slogan.
That's just one example. I could go on.