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1/n To be completely frank, while I DO sympathize with the Floyd family, I do NOT sympathize (which is not to say I think they shouldn't be allowed to protest) with the protestors (whether violent or non-violent), at least insofar as they think this is ALL about...
2/n 'systemic racism' and 'privilege'. At the same time, I do UNDERSTAND the protestors and don't hold entirely blame them. They've been fed a lot of lies and bad information over the past decades.
3/n The media helped to promote the narrative and the worldviews that motivate such people. It has encouraged people to view complicated issues entirely through the lens of race.
4/n It has encouraged people to view or stereotype all white people--a population with immense internal diversity, in terms of ancestry, experiences and outcomes--as privileged oppressors or 'Karens'
5/n It has encouraged people to think 'color' is the most important attribute of other human beings, and has thus divided the world between people who 'have color' and people that don't
6/n It has fed the perception that 'oppression' is rampant and confronts 'marginalized groups' at every street corner
7/n Many of these graphs are reposts, btw. But I think they bring important context to the current moment, so I'm sharing them again
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9/n It's not clear the extent that people appreciate how beholden their perceptions of reality are to the media. Whatever the case, there is a very strong correlation (r=0.9) between such coverage and racial attitudes (for more on the latter, see here https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1243288950007103491?s=20)
10/n A granger test even *suggests* a causal relationship (i.e. media trends predict shifts in racial attitudes, but racial attitudes don't predict shifts in media coverage).
11/n Anyway, I probably should have just a more elaborated written an article about all of this. I suppose I'll try to get around to it this week. Stay tuned.
