The Not So Soft Bigotry of Liberal Media's Racism
By Jim ONeill —— Bio and Archives--March 23, 2019
The Not So Soft Bigotry of Liberal Media's RacismThe liberal media were quick to pounce on the recent killings in Christchurch, New Zealand—loudly and frequently. This was to be expected as New Zealand is largely a white western culture, and therefore afforded “most favored status†among mostly white, mostly liberal, western media. The murders that occurred during the same period in Nigeria, although greater in number, were largely ignored because (1) the victims were black, and (2) worse, Christian blacks, and (3) worse still, African Christian blacks, so who cares?
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Africa is still to many Western minds a vast, unmapped continent…even the most liberal and global of media outlets pay its politics and economics scant attention.
The faces of those who have died in these atrocities are being hidden from view.
We are denied the chance to protest to our own politicians on behalf of the victims. And they are being written off as participants in “clashesâ€â€”these unarmed women, children and old people, who have been buried in mass graves.—Michael Jensen “Nigerian farmers are under attack, so why don’t we hear about it?â€
