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[–]FoxySDTWhite Nationalist 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

He might be right about anti-black bias in news coverage BUT he is ignoring the anti-white bias in TV shows. Whites are much more often depicted as murderers on TV than they are in reality.

Content analyses of three seasons of Law & Order were examined to evaluate the show’s portrayal of race and crime compared to actual crime statistics for New York City during the same periods.[...] Results suggest whites are disproportionately portrayed as criminals five to eight times more often on police dramas compared to actual crime statistics for the city of New York, exposure to police dramas increases beliefs of threats to personal safety, and exposure to police dramas leads to elevated perceptions of white criminality among non-whites.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2015.1104977

Now, I would assume TV shows have larger audience than news coverage of crimes so by his own logic whites are erroneously over-represented in these NCVS surveys to even larger extent than blacks.

That being said I think this whole narrative is BS. According to him people don't remember the race of the man who robbed them because of the stress so they just say he was black that's what they saw on the news? Whether the offender was white or black is not some tiny detail you forget because of stress. This excuse doesn't even pass basic smell test. Not mentioning he didn't provide any evidence that this is happening, it's pure speculation on his part.

It's also funny he claims blacks and whites use drugs at similar rates based on a self-report survey (National Household Survey on Drug Abuse) when he criticized surveys for being inaccurate few moments ago. I guess they start being accurate when they show what he likes to see. Unfortunately for him there is good evidence that blacks are lying on these surveys about their drug use. This has been documented here: https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/is-the-criminal-justice-system-racist/

To put it shortly, blacks use drugs at higher rates than whites so it doesn't mean there is systemic racism when they get arrested for drugs at higher rates as well.

Anyway that's my response. If someone here has functioning reddit account you can send him this reply. I would be curious what he has to say.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

anti-black bias in news coverage

On what fucking planet?!