The mainstream media lied to me about conservatives

[mystery-ak]

 The mainstream media lied to me about conservatives
By Adam B. Coleman   
October 30, 2022 8:26pm

There was a time when I perceived the world of politics through a deceptive lens that our mainstream-media optometrists provided me. Although in every other area of my life I would apply skepticism, I made the mistake of automatically trusting them because they told me to.

From the inception of my political curiosity in my mid-20s, the people around me appealed to my race by labeling Republicans and conservatives unabashed and habitual racists. And the media I was consuming reinforced that as being the foundation of their political motivations.

Being a racist is supposed to be our agreed-upon social sin of the modern era. If you wholly believe that one large swath of people has racism cemented to the core of their being, their policy positions no longer matter, even if they conceptually make sense.

This demonizing strategy was like placing mold on my curiosity to understand the other side, spoiling the possibility of having a good-faith consideration of conservative ideals.

For nearly a decade, I consumed false framing of policy positions and outright lies about people on the political right. Even worse, I was being fed half-truths while believing I was undoubtedly being informed.

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[Kamaji]

I was being propagandized to the point of ignoring my own personal experience of living in five states and in a variety of environments, ranging from rural to urban. At one point, I was one of four black children in a majority-white rural middle school and was for the most part treated like everyone else. The immoral people I’m supposed to be constantly scared of, I find, are rare in our society, and that was my experience in rural conservative America.

The mainstream-media bubble I resided in shielded me from understanding varying perspectives, but that’s the point of propaganda: to mentally restrict your curiosity so you stay a loyal customer of consumption.

[aligncare]

10 years inside the media bubble? Certainly took him a long time to have his eyes opened. But I’ll take an opened mind and a willingness to listen, any way it came.

The author probably never had an opportunity to hear Rush Limbaugh. Now that would have sped up the process, pronto.

[roamer_1]

10 years inside the media bubble? Certainly took him a long time to have his eyes opened. But I’ll take an opened mind and a willingness to listen, any way it came.

Normalcy bias is a b*tch.

[Kamaji]

10 years inside the media bubble? Certainly took him a long time to have his eyes opened. But I’ll take an opened mind and a willingness to listen, any way it came.

The author probably never had an opportunity to hear Rush Limbaugh. Now that would have sped up the process, pronto.