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| The Media's Tribal War on Americans |
| 2019-02-26 |
| Why did the media fall so swiftly for the Jussie Smollett hoax right after falling for the Covington Catholic hoax? The easy answer is bias. And that might have even been the right answer a generation ago. These days the media isn’t biased. It’s tribal. Bias leads us to make mistakes. But the media wasn’t making a mistake when it loudly broadcast false claims with plenty of red flags about Trump supporters wearing red hats. Just as the media wasn’t making a mistake when it spread fake news about attacks on Muslim women by Trump supporters after the election. This wasn’t an error due to prejudice, but an active effort to reinforce tribal prejudices. The Covington Catholic story in particular was not newsworthy by any rational definition of the term. The media insisted on making it news because it perfectly encapsulated the tribal prejudices of its base of urban and suburban lefties by pitting anti-abortion kids in MAGA hats against saintly minorities. ...In a liberal society, people from different tribes can agree to disagree because they recognize their mutual humanity. In a tribal society, the ’other’ is less than human. Tribal narratives are about the superiority of ’our’ people to ’their’ people. Outrage at selective incidents is used to dehumanize the ’other’ tribe, to call for violence against them, and then to urge their utter destruction. ...The media is the voice of the leftist tribes reinforcing their identities, policing their boundaries and stirring up hatred, outrage and violence against the rest of the country. It lets no incident pass it by that it can use to stir up more tribal enmity, whether it is a boy in a red cap in Washington D.C. or a mall store closing in Colorado Springs. It has become the greatest enemy of a tolerant and open society. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 The media has turned rancid. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-26 10:33 |