The Daily Stupid: Racial WTF

[mijan]

CNN is featuring this article:

Are Whites Racially Oppressed?

First, please note that CNN is not actually saying that whites are/aren't oppressed.  They're saying that growing numbers of white people are viewing themselves as oppressed. 

And yeah, I've noticed that "help, help! I'm being oppressed" bullshit from a growing number of white people... PARTICULARLY the affluent, white, straight, Christian males.  (Oh dear, SO oppressed, aren't they?)  It's really disturbing to see that just because certain people aren't quite as far ahead as they used to be just on the basis of their race, they are deluded enough to think that their slightly reduced privilege is actually oppression. 

The article is a mish-mash of opinions and bleating from various people.  I'd laugh at this as a piece of satire, except I know these people are actually serious.

Comments

[gmonkey42.livejournal.com]

This part was written in a sneaky, misleading way:

Conservative news outlets ran a number of stories last summer highlighting an incident from the 2008 elections, in which activists from the New Black Panther Party appeared to be intimidating voters at a polling place. Those claims were never proven.

"activists from the New Black Panther Party appeared to be intimidating voters," is not what happened. That makes it sound like there were Black Panthers outside polling places and they appeared to be threatening.

They should have phrased it more like "Conservative news outlets ran a number of unsubstantiated stories last summer claiming that activists from the New Black Panther Party had intimidated voters at a polling place. Those claims were never proven." That's more accurate and less easy to deliberately misquote.

But no, go ahead, MSM, continue mainstreaming all the lies started by Fox News and just making them sound like "he said/she said" rather than the flat-out fabrications they really are.

LOL the article overall makes white people look like ASSHOLES. I mean, we are, but goddamn, these Tea Partiers are not helping. Not understanding what the word "minority" means, for example. It took me about 2 minutes to find the 2009 census data (2010 data aren't yet available for all states). White people are still a huge majority in the U.S.. That table lumps together "White" and "Hispanic/Latin@" - This other table shows about 45 million people are Hispanic & Latin@ compared with 224 million white & Hispanic people total, therefore about 179 million actually-white people. The next largest group is about 37 million black people. Still a huge white majority. White people outnumber the next largest group by almost FOUR TO ONE and account for almost 60% of the total U.S. population.

I don't get how it's gotten to this point where major news outlets routinely post stories about an obvious and easily disproved fallacy: "white people are the minority," by framing it as "some people think [this obvious and easily disproved fallacy]." It makes me worry about the future.

(edited to make the blockquote easier to identify as such with the LJ formatting)

Also eta this: "Americans are trained to think that any explicit defense of white interests is 'racist.' " LOL, THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the subtle misinformation and mainstreaming of unsubstantiated bullshit pisses me off... but I've come to expect that level of ineptitude from every news outlet. It's sad that CNN has sunk so low. It used to be respectable.