“Not every negative interaction between people of different races is driven by racism or racial animus” - this is something that the social media hive mind routinely fails to consider. This isn’t an argument to say racial motives do not exist, but we often get 1 minute videos which completely do not provide complex nuance of the incident. The default to suspicion of racism has done too much harm.
May 24, 2023·edited May 24, 2023Liked by Charles Ekokotu
Nicely balanced commentary! There's a nuance here, though. It's not quite symmetrical. As I see it, the utterly baseless charge of 'white supremacist' gets whipped out not just by Twitter mobs, but also by the mainstream media, as we saw with Kyle Rittenhouse and the Covington kids and the Central Park 'Karen', and even by the President. The 'thug' stereotype, however' is vigorously opposed, rightly, in the mainstream. It is just Twitter or other 'mobs' that use it, ie. much more on the margins. This to me exposes the hypocrisy of the mainstream today.
Pregnant white girl snatches bike from 4 black guys in public.
That would have been an historical event. Something that time would have been measured from.
Where were you when Pearl Harbor happened? Where were you when 9-11 happened?
“Not every negative interaction between people of different races is driven by racism or racial animus” - this is something that the social media hive mind routinely fails to consider. This isn’t an argument to say racial motives do not exist, but we often get 1 minute videos which completely do not provide complex nuance of the incident. The default to suspicion of racism has done too much harm.
Nicely balanced commentary! There's a nuance here, though. It's not quite symmetrical. As I see it, the utterly baseless charge of 'white supremacist' gets whipped out not just by Twitter mobs, but also by the mainstream media, as we saw with Kyle Rittenhouse and the Covington kids and the Central Park 'Karen', and even by the President. The 'thug' stereotype, however' is vigorously opposed, rightly, in the mainstream. It is just Twitter or other 'mobs' that use it, ie. much more on the margins. This to me exposes the hypocrisy of the mainstream today.