D. C. Bear said:
ShooterTX said:
D. C. Bear said:
There are plenty of racist people out there who show their racism on a regular basis. I know a number of them (and tend to avoid their company). If we want to see the state of racism in America, however, counting instances of racism reported in media is not a good way to do that because media coverage does not reflect what is going on.
Untrained Twitter users who jumped on this story might be excused for their failure to exercise proper verification before spouting off. Professional journalists, however, should not. Sadly, too many are now more interested in being advocates than that they are in being accurate.
So if incidences of racism are so rampant... and the media likes to jump on those stories, rather than investigate them... then why are there so few media stories of actual racist incidences?
If the media is motivated to promote all the racist stories (and they clearly are), then why aren't at least half of these media stories true? Why are the majority of these stories fake?
Clearly, there are not as many of these racist incidences as you would like for us to believe. They can't ALL be flying under the radar so effectively.... especially if racism stems from ignorance, as so many would have us believe.... then how are all these ignorant people so good at hiding their racist attacks? Those must be some of the most crafty & brilliant, ignorant people on the planet? Especially since they are all over the nation, in every part of society.
Amazing.
Please point out anywhere that I said we should believe a particular number or percentage of stories about racism.
Amazing.
I think you misread that statement.
I was saying that there are not as many racist incidences as you would like us to believe there are. What that means is that your post implies that there are plenty of racist incidences out there, that occur "on a regular basis".
My point is that there doesn't seem to be any evidence to back up your statements.
Would you like to provide the evidence to back up your statements?
If racism happens "on a regular basis" (as you stated), and the media is overly motivated to report on racist incidences even without investigation (as you stated), then why aren't there hundreds of stories about racism which are eventually proven true? Why are the majority of racism stories proven to be fake?